Epistemologies from the Global South

Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa

By: Cheikh Thiam

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Paperback | 29 September 2025 | Edition Number 1

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This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghorâs work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation of the West as subject of history. As opposed to this tradition, the book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm.

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