Negritude-style ethnophilosophy extends neo-colonial ideology through illusory identity

Evidence

Negritude, as an expression of ethnophilosophy, produces an illusory consciousness in one’s cultural identity, which is conceived to be different from others and is an extension of the ideology of neo-colonialism (Towa 1971b, pp. 24–25). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 545

Categorization

• XREF: Towa’s critique of negritude as neo-colonial extension parallels colonial-deference critiques familiar from postcolonial theory. — connects to: the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”; the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”