Yes your analyis meets my criteria partly.
I should reinforce your point about these great African thinkers who already saw a world system from a pan-African view point. This is a deep and long standing aspiration of all liberated African thinkers to ensure that a powerful, self-directed Africa emerges that is part of the routine workings of any global system.
2. The challenge of to the present generation of liberated Africans globally is not merely to affirm the imperialist view or imply that the present global system is an inescapable prison house. Rather it is to use the resources of our era: intellectual, technological ideological etc to contribute to ensuring that a powerful Africa emerges that makes history and is not an object of and reactor to the doings of others. For as Frantz Fanon eloquently stated in, The Wretched of the Earth, "Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.."
3. A related challenge is how to formulate new conceptual frameworks with which to view our on-going experiences, not as abberations but as part of the complexity of a re-emergent people, involved not in a unilinear journey but in a dialectical, untidy and complex historical journey being enacted in multiple sites and at different levels in the African world by Africans exercising their agency and not engaged in sterile debates about whether or not Africans have agency.
4. Existing frameworks whether from Marx, Derrida, Foucoult, IMF, World Bank and even the UN are not very useful to true self-understanding. In fact they are distortive distractions to self-understanding as well as sites for grand standing of who knows best and not about seeking concrete, doable solutions to the challenges of the present.
5. The easiest thing to do is criticism, deconstruction and destruction and the reiteration of established banalites.
6.What present day Africa needs is careful thinking, bold visions, and autonomous strategies for Africa's take off and renaissance in the 21st century as a powerful, materially prosperous and self-respecting and respected member of the global community. This is a summary of the philosophy of liberated development outlined in first chapter of my book, Nigerian Technology Development Since Independence (2004).
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