Les Rapports Entre L’Afrique-Mère Et Quelques-uns de Ses Enfants Du Sol Et De La Diaspora

Abstract

It is worth noting, the relationship subsisting between Mother-Africa and some of her sons and daughters on the African soil as well as those in the Afro-American, Afro-European as well as Afro-Caribbean communities. The sober and harsh sentiments roused through reading their texts transport the reader to the Wonderland to determine the nature of the basic relationship under reference. Is it exclusively that of love? Is it absolutely hatred? Or is it a mixture of both? This wonder led to the study of the most important of the said texts. The study commenced with the hypothesis of quasi-absolute love, paradoxically exploring Western ethnocentrisms, intensive yearnings, touching discoveries, dramatic revolt and rejection of the West as well as doses of optimism and Universalist compromises. Exploration of the near-absolute hypothesis of hatred followed. This manifested itself from the viewpoint of awe in the wake of Western culture, colonial mentalities, brainwashing and mercantilism, Afrophilia, together with defense mechanisms. The love-hate relationship notwithstanding, one major and similar mission was discovered to have been running through the voices: conscious or subconscious need, if not desire, for material and psychic emancipation!