The Weapon of Theory: African thought and literature

Abstract

The article aims to review some characteristics of African philosophy in Lusophone African countries compared with other African contexts ​​affected by colonization processes (particularly British and French Africa). After political independence, founded on a set of strong ideological thinking (in particular, the case of Amilcar Cabral), post-colonial times do not seem to be characterized by radical reflections as happened in other contexts, mainly through a favourable conjunction of new radical thinking. Discussing the difference between philosophy and thought in the context of the theoretical revision of the concept of community, deconstructing the work of identities and national narratives, the article attempts to find in literature - and not in philosophy in the strict sense, in the context of Lusophone African countries - fragments of such radical thought disseminated in numerous texts. Taking as a case study the reconfiguration of the community in the classic Luuanda by Luandino Vieira, the perspective written in the text deals with mapping of African thought in the Lusophone African countries spread across many literary texts