The Place ofAfrica, in Theory

Twentieth-century African theory translated two destructive diasporas - of peoples by the slave trade, of lands by empire - into a creative third: a pan-Africanist philosophy of decolonization that recoveredAfrica's pluralism as a powerfully "diasporic" defiance of imperial taxonomies. Comparing a 1967 lecture given inCairo bySenegalese poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor with a 1955 treatise on the philosophy of revolution by Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser (JamalcAbd al-Nasir), and both with Achille Mbembe's 2001On the Postcolony, this essay shows how Senghor marshals race/culture hybridities, Nasser historical/geographic alignments, and Mbembe temporal entanglements to deconstruct monolithic constructions of "Arab", "Black", and "African" being, space, and time - and to pluralize and "world" a continent. It argues that the logics oftrans-territorialityandtrans-temporalitythat informed Third World solidarity in the 1950s-1970s represent a forgotten legacy of pan-Africanism to postcolonialism and to global theory generally.Africa's place, in theory, decenters Eurocentrism

African philosophy · Ancient history · Decolonization · Empire · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Heterotopia (medicine · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Solidarity · Temporality · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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