The Africa In W. E. B. Du Bois Praxis

Africa World Now Project · Feb 23, 2018 · 1h

“As I face Africa, I ask myself: What is it between us that constitutes a tie that I can feel better than I can explain?” This was a question W.E.B. Du Bois asked himself in 1940 and we might imagine time and again before and after that moment. It was the question that guided his scholarship and his activism. Africa, was as Nahum Dmitri Chandler has argued, “the limit of the world,” and thus we might say, the beginning of Du Bois’s imagination for a future world, free of the toil and misery of modernity. How to explain this feeling was also how to produce an epistemological break that would…