On Extreme Responsibility
What if Blackness/Whiteness could Go an Extra Mile?
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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-3425.2024v9n16p23-35Keywords:
Constructive decolonization, Africa, Identities, BlacknessAbstract
This essay sets out to investigate the contribution that black women thinkers and feminists bring to the debate over decolonization/decoloniality and to find out how much mileage can be covered with differential and oppositional politics only. Taking the Cameroonian novelist Calixthe Beyala’s intellectual and creative journeys as a feminist, writer, and activist for Black causes and identities, I argued the idea of decolonization as a break from something incompletely prepares us for a purposeful and inclusive activation of social transformation. Constructive decolonization, or a break from ontology toward some-Other, appears as a shock-event that reveals the crispation, contradiction and poverty of power in Africa’s racial experience
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Published
2024-09-26
How to Cite
NYECK, S. N. On Extreme Responsibility: What if Blackness/Whiteness could Go an Extra Mile?. VirtuaJus, Belo Horizonte, v. 9, n. 16, p. 23–35, 2024. DOI: 10.5752/P.1678-3425.2024v9n16p23-35. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/virtuajus/article/view/34315. Acesso em: 27 aug. 2025.
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Dossier: Decoloniality and Decolonial Theory
