Apartheid’s racial stigma drove the shift from ‘Bantu’ to ‘Ubuntu’ discourse
Evidence
I apologize for this long quotation, but it permits me to bring out some possibilities of black men’s mistakes. Alioune Diop, for example, in his introduction to La philosophic bantoue, remarks that Bantu ontology knows nothing of the metaphysical misery of Europe. The inference that he draws from this is none the less dangerous: … Be careful! It is not a matter of finding Being in Bantu thought, when Bantu existence subsists on the level of nonbeing, of the imponderable. It is quite true that Bantu philosophy is not going to open itself to understanding through a revolutionary will: But it is precisely in that degree in which Bantu society, being a closed society, does not contain that substitution of the exploiter for the ontological relations of Forces. Now we know that Bantu society no longer exists. And there is nothing ontological about segregation. Enough of this rubbish. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 652 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Praising Bantu ontology masks the destruction of Bantu society by segregation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 652
Related
- Praising Bantu ontology masks the destruction of Bantu society by segregation. (similarity 0.87)
- Apartheid-era racialization caused Bantu to be replaced by Ubuntu (similarity 0.86)
- South African apartheid made the label Ubuntu replace the tainted term Bantu (similarity 0.82)
- Critics charge that Bantu Philosophy served to safeguard colonial order and break African resistance (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Praising Bantu ontology masks the destruction of Bantu society by segregation.
#complicates(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 652