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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 6(5), pp. 91-99, October, 2018 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2018.052
Review paper
De-Stereotyping the History of Africa: the Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and the Manuscripts of Timbuktu as the Clues Establishing the Anteriority of African Civilization
1Dr.COULIBALY Aboubacar Sidiki, 2Dr.TANDJIGORA Fodié and 3Dr.DIALLO Issa
1English Department, University of Letters and Humanities of Bamako, Mali (ULSHB) Tel: (00223)78760148/66341663–E-mail: aboubacarscouly@hotmail.com (Corresponding author) 2Socio-Anthropology Department, University of Letters and Humanities of Bamako, Mali (ULSHB) Tel: (00223) 76451269/65605940–E-mail: tandjigoraf@yahoo.fr 3Socio-Anthropology Department, University of Letters and Humanities of Bamako, Mali (ULSHB) Tel: (00223) 73104827/66329719–E-mail: issosfr@yahoo.fr
Accepted 27 September 2018
The paper
strived to deconstruct the commonly held stereotypical myths about
Africa. In this dynamics, it has been discovered that two salient
elements like Africa does not have any history as well as the black race
is an inferior one, had been developed by Eurocentrists to justify the
horrendous practices of slavery and colonialism in Africa. In other
words, the first element was generally related to the lack of any
writing practice or system existing in pre-colonial Africa before the
arrival of Arabs and Europeans and the second one was linked to the
color of the skin of the African people, their blackness. However it
must be pointed out that the study also explored, explained and showed
how the Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and the Manuscripts of Timbuktu
could effectively and efficiently contribute to the De-Stereotyping of
the History of Africa if their exploitation, teaching and dissemination
were popularized in and outside Africa. In so doing, the study’s data
were collected and analyzed in the context of the postcolonial theory as
well as the adoption of the Homi Bhabharian Third Space of Enunciation
to advocate a democratized globalization of cultures and nations. Cite This Article As: COULIBALY, A.S., TANDJIGORA, F., DIALLO, I. (2018). De-Stereotyping the History of Africa: the Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and the Manuscripts of Timbuktu as the Clues Establishing the Anteriority of African Civilization. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 6(5): 91-99 |
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