當代非洲的歷史中的人文精神

Humanism as History in Contemporary Africa

當代非洲的社會政治想像經常受到歷史書寫──通常是殖民歷史──解構的召喚。如果殖民主義曾因被在地人錯誤認知為一個歷史主題，並且經由延伸，因對人性的否定，而興盛，在地人將必須透過重新認識其本身的歷史，以重新肯定其人性。在該點上，非洲歷史有可能成為人文精神的歷史。本文的第一部分將討論局限於該討論已為其取得關聯的歷史背景之中。背景是啟蒙與殖民歷史。我將這些歷史的真實性與當代非洲所出現的社會政治想像互相連接。修復被截斷了的非洲主體意識的努力也將成為一種，經由抨擊殖民歷史真實性的知性根本，對歷史的修復。

The socio-political imagination of contemporary Africa is usually beckoned upon a deconstruction of historiography – usually colonial history. If colonialism flourished through a misrecognition of the native as a historical subject, and by extension, a denial of humanity, the native would have to reassert his humanity through a re-cognition of his own history. At which point, African history would become a history of humanism. The first part of this essay localizes the debate within the historical context for which the debate gained relevance. The context is the Enlightenment and colonial history. I shall link these historicities to the emergent social political imagination in contemporary Africa. The attempt to rehabilitate the truncated African subjectivity would also become a rehabilitation of history by attacking the intellectual roots of colonial historicity.