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An African Theology of Decolonization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Dibinga Wa Said
Dibinga Wa Said
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W. E. B. DuBois was right when he said, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” That is to say, regardless of your own definition of your own being, you fall into one of four racial groups, namely, yellow, black, white, and red. But you cannot stand in or belong to more than one racial group. But history shows us that some racial groups have been victimized by another or other groups. But I am not interested in what happened in history in human relations — of all racial groups. I am particularly interested in the conditions of my Black existence under the most barbaric and inhuman system of man's inhumanity to man. That is to say, I would like to examine the conditions of my being which is oppressed by another kind of racial group — called “white.” The nature of my oppression is also shared by my brother, Ho Chi Minh, when he said, “It is well known that the black race is the most exploited and most oppressed of the human family.”

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 64 , Issue 4: Theology and the Black Consciousness , October 1971 , pp. 501 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1971

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