A PERSPECTIVA AFRICANA EM PAUTA: HUMANIDADES, CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS, HISTÓRIA E ESTUDOS AFRICANOS

Abstract

During periods of european colonization, decolonization, and reorganization of African societies, intellectuals born in Africa began to produce their own knowledge in academic and scientific assumptions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, relative to the world and itself, Written up until then under the fists of the Western tradition. The present article intends to catch up and discuss briefly the set of these narratives and their problematics, thinking specifically about the debates around the social sciences and humanities in contemporary Africa, African studies and the history of Africa constructed from the perspective of African historians, philosophers, social scientists, scholars, and intellectuals themselves. It is about understanding the vast set of theoretical, conceptual and methodological frameworks, employees to express the position of Africans themselves in relation to the world and its continental space, at the same time to understand under what circumstances such knowledge was organized and produced.