Panafrikanistinės Ideologijos Metamorfozės Civilizacinės Ir Kultūrinės Tapatybės Paieškose
Metamorphoses of Pan-Africanism Ideology in Researches of Civilization’s and Cultural Identity

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews the philosophical and culturological ideological attitudes of African identity with anticolonial ideology of Pan-Africanism’s associated humanistic movements. Special attention is paid to the critics of Euro-centric theories of cultures. In the centre of the discussion we find the concept of reason which became a clear marker between logic and mystical, civilized and un-civilized. This discourse between the Western World and Black Africa was created by two ideologically contradictory parts: colonial and anticolonial. The author shows, that these discussions were in the colonial enslavers’ languages and that even in the African Continent during the period of aggressive colonial ideology local languages had secondary place. These local languages guard and accumulate a unique millenial cultural tradicion. In fervent discussions we failed to regard the mental characteristics which can be found in language, and which are related to the archaic, mythical cultural traditions, landscape, climate conditions and other sociocultural factors. These mental characteristics became a very important brake in the diffusion of national identity and in later researches in African studies.

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