The point is not about re-inventing any wheel or being merely Afrocentric. It is just that any great power that emerges formulates its own vision and designs strategies to incorporate and domesticate all external and internal legacies as its own for its development.
Africa has to deliberately create its own autonomous sites for the reception and forging of all instruments for its self-propulsion. Thats the point.
As for the point about Fanon, of course all intellectuals have a heritage. its another matter if the heritage becomes an albatross, from which such intellectuals cannot graduate and need to constantly invoke. Maturation, growth and independence are more important than mastery and invocation of the his master's voice.
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