Rethinking Decolonization in “Sub-Saharan Africa”: Toward Reinventionism

Abstract

This article contributes to the assessment of decolonization in what is known as sub-Saharan Africa, from the context of a contested independence in many African countries, which highlights the claim for a new kind of decolonization. After reconsidering the way in which the decolonization process took place in Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War, the article proposes the theory of reinventionism as a way to gain genuine self-determination. That theory, which should fuel all the aspects of the African reality, is meant to lead to a breaking up with any structural domination in Africa. Rethinking decolonization in Africa, as no longer a mere Africanization of the structures of domination but as a way of liberation, is imperative.