THE DISTORTED IMAGES OF AFRICAN CONTINENT: A HEIDEGGERIAN INTERPRETATION
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ABSTRACT
This study was carried out on the distorted images of African continent: a Heideggerian interpretation. To achieve this significant research objective were formulated, which is to showcase and bring to “more” conscious awareness the varied distorted images with which Africans are labeled. The study covered the whole of African continent, especially the black Africans, bearing in mind that some Africans like Egyptians are white in complexion. The history of African is relevant to the history of Black people throughout the world, and partly because of the general derogatory image “Africans” and Black people everywhere have inherited from Western history. The study adopted the expository, analytical and hermeneutical design. Hence the study analyzed the Martin Heidegger: The Question Of “Being”, the fundamental ontology: Dasein analytic, his methodology, and Heidegger’s concept of phenomenology and interpretation. The study in the chapter four analyzed African Distorted Images, the causes of African predicament which include; Geographico, Historico, and Colonialism. Additionally, phenomenological interpretations of African distorted images was also part of the study. In conclusion, the study indicated that the distorted images about Africa, in the light of Heideggerian interpretations, are born out of prejudice, and cannot withstand the sledgehammer of logical criticisms. Further, European explorers and anthropologists did not discover or uncover the hidden meanings embedded in the African phenomena like artifacts, symbols of religious worship etc. Which reveal the care, understanding and concern of the African Dasein in his everyday world or environment. Those distorted images about African still perceptibly showcase themselves in this contemporary time through most western Medias, avenues and scholarly writings. These also reveal themselves in the way Africans are treated in the world today. Nevertheless, it would be incongruous to relegate African plightful situations to the limbo. Really, many African nations are lavishing under the burden weight of poverty, hunger and economic bastardizations. Many African leaders also contribute to the hardships of their nation. There are reaped harvests of deaths everywhere. But most of these African predicaments are caused by colonialism, slave trade and geographical cause. Therefore, Westerners should restore an act of faith in the humanity of Africans. As they can achieve and conquer a lot through mutual understanding, love and cross fertilization of ideas. Telhard de Chardin describes this love as that which “brings individuals together, not superficially and tangentially but centre to centre.
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