SENGHOR’S NEGRITUDE, BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS PHILOSOPHY AND THE QUESTS FOR AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SENGHOR’S NEGRITUDE, BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS PHILOSOPHY AND THE QUESTS FOR AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: In any model of human and societal development, it is conventionally and philosophically believed that it is always directed along cultural identity of a people, and Africa as a continent and Africans as a people are not an exception. Human culture enlivens human senses of development, and in the case of Africa. Through the socialization of Negritude, Black Consciousness Philosophy (BCP) becomes an identity of hope, liberation and growth. Here, we assess Senghor’s Negritude as a conscientious movement for political and social redemption from western political hegemony and economic enslavement. Such BCP believes on the socio-political influences of African collectiveness and communal blackness that marked African Cultural Identities (ACIs), which is championed by Negritude’s movement. With the contemporary revisitation of Senghor’s Negritude as the basis of BCP, we try to restate this consciousness of ACIs to fashion the courses of African Sustainable Development (ASD). The paper concludes that Africans should maintain their cultural identity that is situated in their Blackness of History as against the White of History, especially in their pursuits for ASD, even in the midst of compelling and oppressing cultures in our current world of economic, social and political changes and civilization.

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