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Colonization, as a system of denying human dignity to many peoples of the world, symbolizes an immense space-time of suffering, oppression and resistance.
As a conceptual framework that generates violence policies, colonialism necessarily has several readings, depending on the power relations that justify this intervention. If in the colonizing countries this action is justified and legitimate by contributing to expand the Eurocentric civilizing project for the colonized, speaking from their experience, colonialism expresses barbarism, millions of men torn to their gods, their lands, their habits, life, life, dance, and wisdom, resulting in repeated acts of genocide and epistemicide.
Relearning to know and dialogue with the “other” colonizer (to decolonize him) was one of the central challenges of African emancipalist projects. As denounced by various nationalist movements, it is the West that creates African otherness as an empty space of knowledge, a hollow vessel, a body without history and without reflection.
