ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critical reinterpretation and analysis of the notion of freedom in the African context which includes the colonial episode, decolonization, the on-going quest for and nostalgia for an original Africa, and the quest for liberation. The author explores the possibility of universal ground for freedom, in order to address new forms of domination, subjugation, and the penetration of money that promotes the commodification of all things including the notion of freedom itself. The grounds of this analysis in dialogue with Immanuel Kant, Frantz Fanon, and Steve Bantu Biko is to demonstrate that Kant’s universal categories can be illuminated philosophical profiles based on African thought to better address human reconstruction, peace, and justice today.
