ABSTRACT
In this chapter contribution, I put the Western critical theory of Marxism into crisis through putting it into conversation with anti-colonial – postcolonial and decolonial – frameworks. In this creolized approach, I seek to retain what is relevant in both Marxism and anti-colonial approaches in an effort to recover ‘the human’ and put the Black African subject at the centre of theory in pursuit of a liberatory intellectual politics. I start off by discussing the challenges of beginnings in theorising in Africa in that, in the colonized continent, theory has always been Western. In an act of epistemic disobedience, I refuse to start off by tracing the emergence of the Black African subjectivity from Western theory and, therefore, I deliberately begin from an African perspective. This way I seek to avoid the teleology, normativity and universalization of Western theory.
