By Jean Godefroy Bidima
Jean Godefroy Bidima’s l. a. Palabre examines the conventional African establishment of palaver in order to create discussion and open alternate with a view to get to the bottom of clash and advertise democracy. within the wake of South Africa’s fact and Reconciliation Commissions and the gacaca courts in Rwanda, Bidima deals a compelling version of the way to increase an African public area the place discussion can wrestle false impression. This quantity, which include different essays on criminal strategies, cultural variety, reminiscence, and the net in Africa, bargains English-speaking readers the chance to turn into familiar with a hugely unique and significant postcolonial thinker.
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Four moments are important if we are to understand the book’s adventure in Africa: its presence, its virtualization, its disappearance, and its ties with the economy. When it burst onto the African scene, the book found other types of extant writing, those of the brute matter of sculptures in stone, wood, and skins, and that of the body with its tattoos and scarifications. Writing expressed a mysterious voice and when religion was involved, it became sacred. Koranic verses and biblical passages Preface to the English Edition | xxxiii were so many holy objects having a therapeutic and cathartic function in societies that adopted revealed religions without abandoning the ancestral basis of their beliefs.
This procedure, which consists in saying “I,” is really important in our democracies, where self-affirmation must resist being reduced to a kind of self-withdrawal in which the notion of alterity is denied. ” Taking the floor presupposes that one has considered the need for a common language and especially the possibility that speech may produce both consensus and dissensus. Speech is thus the place of reversibility and above all the prelude to action. By way of speech, we must try to examine the role of fragility in our civilizations, otherwise so sure of themselves.
Next, the world we are promised announces the end of convictions for the benefit of multiple religions that take the market as a paradigm. 60 Citizens gather in a public space, but what or who do they expect to look like? The question of resemblance leads us to raise the place of mirrors in our societies. Thus the analysis of “constructed belief” provokes us to examine the nature of reflection, of duplication, and of the simulacrum at the interior of our public spheres. In contemporary African societies, how is the production of simulacra lived and how does the diminution of symbolic content in a life reduced to the struggle for survival produce a new kind of citizen whose words are hollow?