ABSTRACT
The essay is a consideration of the view of the philosophy of liberation on the role of Marxism in the Africa of the twenty-first century, which still finds itself entangled in coloniality. The purpose of the consideration is to ponder, in a troubling, critical way, the limits and liberatory potential of Marxism in decolonising Africa in the present. The philosophy of liberation, otherwise, must squeeze out of Marxism liberatory resources that will answer the questions of the specific coloniality that burdens Africa. Only a Marxism that is alive to the problem of coloniality in Africa and is equipped with alertness to the problem of blackness in a world of whiteness can be liberating to Africa.
