![]() In the present, rivalry between Arab and African populations in the Chad region has resurfaced. The study argues that Seid, possibly with the intent of building nation, tends to harmonize African-Arab cultures and traditional-Islamic religions, neglecting the tyranny of Islamization and Arabization in the past. ![]() One story envisions modernization in the reconciliation between Africa and the West, but in real life modernization does not occur within the context of African communalism, but in the neocolonial context, where it benefits the few. ![]() Unpacking literary strains of négritude and consciencism lays bare neglected tensions that thwart reconciliation of the different segments of Chadian society: African/tradition, Arab/Islam, Western/Christianity. Seid's 1962 collection, 'Au Tchad sous les Etoiles' (translated as 'Told by Starlight in Chad', 2007) are read as envisioning nation and a new multicultural Chadian identity at the moment of independence. This study introduces Joseph Brahim Seid, one of Africa's intellectuals of the first generation of independence, in relation to the ideologization of his contemporaneous counterparts, Léopold Sédar Senghor's négritude and Kwame Nkrumah's consciencism. ![]() Literary strains of négritude and consciencism in Joseph Brahim Seid: envisioning nation and a new multicultural Chadian identity The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here ![]()
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