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here to participate in the RNS Blog! For nearly four hundreds
years Africa has been confined to the tail-end of the world history.
Hegel who had a war-centred conception of history went as far as
to label Africa as an anhistorical continent. Of course, in his
opinion, no great wars, at least of the extent of those that had
happened or were happening in Europe or elsewhere in the world,
had ever taken place or were taking place in Africa. No great empires
or kingdoms, at least of the size of European empires and kingdoms,
were being formed or dismantled in Africa.
It will indeed take again nearly one hundred fifty years for Africa to start reclaiming its rightful place in a non-euro-centered, multipolar, world. To a great extent, this is the essence of the process, shall I say of the struggle, in which Africa and its people have been involved for the last four hundreds years or so: a march from the tail-end, the fringes, the periphery, of the world history to a rightful, natural, normal, and respectable place. Read More ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Eternal Vicious Circle? The Rally For A New Society wants
to express its worries in the face of the present turn of events
in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The phrase that comes in
mind in front of such absurdities is: "Here we go again." Like
in 1960: Multiple small groups, each with their leader who wants
to be the President of the country. Like in 1960: A young man,
microwaved soldier brought suddenly from nowhere to the head of
this vast country by an invisible outside hand. Like in 1965:
A Military Coup d'Etat (this time done twice by Dad and by his
son) that is quickly endorsed by the international opinion. |
