African Philosophy in a World of Terror

Praeg argues in this chapter that to all the terrorizing subjectivities at war in the various global terrorscapes, including those in Africa, the celebration of the mystical totality of Black Subjectivity—a subjectivity whose self-conception is rooted in the aporetic recognition that our shared humanity historically and conceptually precedes and continues to shadow every political performance of independence and sovereignty—offers a meaningful juxtaposition or counterpoint.