ABSTRACT
It was the white man who was responsible for slavery and colonialism. It was the white man who has sought to define and shape us. It is his language that we speak, his codes that we adhere to, and it is to him that we justify our actions. This prognosis hurts. There was and is a sense that as black people we are more than just a mere reflection of the white man's image of ourselves. We are a people with our own image, purpose and destiny and one felt and feels the need even today to recover that. As Sartre explains agam:
Thus to the extent that I am revealed to myself as responsible for my being, I lay claim to this being which I am; that is, I wish to recover it, or, more exactly, I am the project of the recovery of my being.4
