Pan-African Pandemonium: Identities, Histories, and Constellations

Philosophy & Rhetoric Jul 2023

Pan-African Pandemonium: Identities, Histories, and Constellations

Bryan Mukandi University of Queensland

Abstract

ABSTRACT Fiston Mujila’s Tram 83 provides a helpful point of departure for this philosophical treatment of pan-African subjectivity. His meditations on music resonate with continental and diasporic accounts of the musicality of African social organization. This in turn provides an opening into a discussion around the tension between conceptions of African identity tied to heritage and continuity on one hand, and considerations of the rupture brought about by the Middle Passage and colonialism on the other. Drawing on African philosophy and Black Studies more broadly, this article argues for a conception of African identity that, while taking seriously heritage and origins, ultimately emerges intersubjectively as a result of the movements and reverberations across the constellation of African worlds. Not only are these pan-African reverberations constitutive, the author argues that they are also key to our survival.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2023-07-04
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.56.1.0033
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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