Verbalizing the awakening of the consciousness of resistance to cultural subjection: insurgizing yourself to unlearn and relearn

Abstract

From 1960 onwards, several countries on the African continent proclaimed their political and administrative “independence” from the colonial yoke, the result of conquests achieved on the one hand, through peaceful negotiation and on the other, through armed struggle. And it was through the latter that Mozambicans achieved national independence, on June 25, 1975. Post-colonial thinkers and theorists, moved by the realization of the prevalence of colonialities of power, have questioned independence. It is in these veins that we weave this article, with the aim of raising some reflections that promote and enhance debates about cultural imposition rooted in the colonial system, supported by prejudiced Eurocentric discourses that sought to instill and emphasize the myth of an inferiority complex attributed to black men; as much as imposing Eurocentric cultural homogenization. These debates are theoretically and methodologically based on post-colonial and decolonial perspectives. Through a bibliographic review, we dialogued with Fanon (2020) Cesáire (2020), Azagaia (2013), Ki-Zerbo (2010) Lopes (2010) and; several authors to discuss the colonialities that permeate the social fabric of Mozambicans. Therefore, from the reflections it appears that colonialities can be destabilized through effective actions of unlearning and relearning: unlearning Eurocentric ideological constraints, “breaking mental domination”, denouncing and rising up against subalternization, cultural alienation and unmasking paradigms , stereotypes, Eurocentric prejudices and learning to regain and revalue native sociocultural identities, learning to think and talk about the African continent with Africans.