The fulcrum of this article is its exposure of postcolonial African modernity as being both historically and philosophically, an anachronistic colonial modernity, or simply Afrocoloniality. I explicate this anachronism by pointing out that while the cultural and intellectual edifice of Afrocoloniality was built on a colonial European Modernism, whose epistemic infr...

This paper explores how West African migrants' movements impacts their religious imagery and that of those they encounter in the diaspora. It specifically addresses how, through the circulation of objects, rituals, and themselves, West Africans and Black Dutchmen of Surinamese descent link, in a Dutch urban setting, spiritual empowering and protection to the Africa...

The recent proliferation of independent African nations with varying legal and governmental backgrounds has given comparativists an unprecedented amount of subject matter which has already resulted in a number of comparative studies.2 So far, however, there is a dearth of material concerning the varied and already numerous constitutions of the new states.