Métamorphoses et destin de la littératuare négro-africaine

AUTEUR :  CESAR MAWANZI

ABSTRACT

The current article raises the relevance and the merit of Kimoni Iyay’s work in the study of the Negro-African literature through its variations and ruptures. It analyzes in context his suggestions in order to release the vitality or the audacity of his mind and grasp the reasons of the social tearing and current anomie. The challenge is to oppose to globalization and to the ideology of the dominant society a new political world order. As a matter of fact, the turning point of pragmatism taken by our contemporary literature does stimulate ethical thinking and does claim a political commitment of the citizens from all sides with regard to the vicissitudes and the injustice of globalization in Africa and in the world. The author inquires Kimoni Iyay’s thought in order to determine the place and destiny of Negro-African literature in the concrete practical life of citizens today. The need of such a new critical writing of culture, whose political challenges already seem to be decisive, and the necessity of adopting a new order without losing one’s soul nor call into question one’s own traditions are obvious in order to overcome the malaise that invades the “black Man” and his culture.