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Blake P
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South Africa has had an immeasurable influence on the African continent, colonialism was capitalism and tried to rewrite African history, Black consciousness is Black renaissance, memory and language are linked, Krune Mqhayi, African literature needs African languages, translation and the adoption by the people of African languages
— Feb 22, 2026 11:49AM
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Blake P
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Pan-Africanism lead to Afro-modernity. Afro-Modernity is flawed due to its reliance on Euro-ideologies such as the arbitrary geography, the African Renaissance requires the the adoption of African languages by not just writers but also African governments
— Feb 17, 2026 08:51AM
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Blake P
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The problem of language is that African-writers write in the Euro-languages while the masses speak their African tongue. The African middle class/elites are anti-historical language on the continent while the diaspora want to go back to the language. Africans are seemingly killing their own language to forget the horrors of colonialism.
— Feb 12, 2026 07:50PM
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Blake P
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European culture essentially replaced African culture, historic destruction of African culture/continent’s identity as a whole, name replacing, linguicide, slavery on the continent and diaspora
— Feb 10, 2026 06:39PM
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