Africa in a Changing World: An Inventory

Abstract

The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci makes, in his Prison Notebooks, the following insightful remarks regarding the character of critical work and reflection. He states: "The beginning of a critical elaboration is the consciousness of that which really is, that is to say a 'knowing of yourself' as a product of the process of history that has unfolded thus far and has left in you, yourself, an infinity of traces collected without the benefit of an inventory. It is necessary initially to make such an inventory." In what follows I will undertake such a task.

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