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The creation of African futures is necessary, but the present needs to be the fulcrum of decolonial subjectivity. What is contended against is the view that privileges the making of the future while the present is still in the clutches of colonial matrices of power that produces coloniality of being, with its epistemic component of imperial reason. Africa has to be decolonized mainly because subjection is inaugurated and perpetuated by imperial reason from the colonial encounter to the contemporary presence of coloniality of being. This chapter argues that the creation of African futures should be left to its vices since the present is the important existential moment in need of decolonization. Firstly, Africa is still in the clutches of coloniality by having colonial states, and this cannot bring any making of the African futures. Secondly, two ontological positions of presence and absence were created by imperial reason—the Humanitas and the Anthropos—thus affirming that the Humanitas is present and the Anthropos is absent. Thirdly, the conception of imperial reason is critiqued. It creates subjection, specifically focusing on the coloniality of being where the humanity of the African subject is questioned, doubted, and reduced to the indomitable lack. Fourthly, epistemic violence denies subjectivity, and African subjects cannot govern themselves, and they will always need the tutelage bound by imperial reason. Fifthly, the colonial utopic registers are the very antithesis of the future they propagate and show how such registers have compromised African self-definition modes. Sixth, it is put forth that decolonial subjectivity is steadfast in its commitment that it knows what is best for Africa for being-in-itself and for-itself. This is the antithesis of imperial reason. It is concluded that another Africa is possible, and this will be realized through decolonial subjectivity attending to the present instead of being engrossed with the future |
