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Afrocentricity seeks neither hegemony nor domination over others. It abhors
the idea that one group should impose its will on others against their wills –
as Eurocentricity does. Not only has the time run out on this type of
domination, there is no longer a willing audience for it. But the lingering
effects of more than three hundred years of psychological and cultural
domination have left Africa off of economic and political terms.
Eurocentricity was possible as a normal expression of culture, although it
has remained an abnormal human system because it seeks to impose its
cultural particularity as universal while denying and degrading other cultural,
political or economic views. The suppressing of anyone’s personality,
economic or cultural expression, civilisation, gender or religion creates the
state of oppression.
Identity creation (formation)and contexts
Another important aspect in debating identities is about contextualising
those identities. Within the debates, contexts are referred variously by
different schools of thought 56 . The notion that the salience of identities is
56 While contexts are generally referred to as macro-, meso-, and micro-levels, C. Soudien refers
to the macro-level context as the “Official Discourse”, the meso-level context as the “Formal
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