Marcien Towa and the Question of Exceeding Negritude For Intellectual Renaissance in Africa

Résumé

Apart from the Negro-renaissance, understood as a literary, artistic and above all revolutionary movement, initiated by the descendants of slaves in the USA around the 20s of the last century, negritude has appeared as the first black intellectual weapon in the fight for recognition. of the anthropological dignity of the black man. Certainly, negritude had its full raison d'être insofar as it first appeared as a need for a return to the sources allowing the African conscience to find its bearings in the face of the crisis it was going through; then and finally as a movement of revolt against the condition of an Africa dominated by Western imperialism. But despite this salutary, better, revolutionary aspect of the Negritude movement, which consisted in clearing the way for revolution and liberation, Marcien Towa, in his conceptualization of the African intellectual renaissance, establishes the difference between Negritude of Senghor and that of Césaire to lead to the idea that this literary current must be overcome because it extends into ethnophilosophy, whereas the latter is not likely to provide Africa dominated by imperialism no development. This is the reason why the present reflection proposes to examine the problem of going beyond negritude in Marcien Towa. It is a question of showing how it is necessary that negritude and its corollaries be exceeded, even abandoned for the exercise of authentic philosophy in Africa, the way par excellence of the mastery and appropriation of universal civilization.