The article analyzes the relationship between Europe and Africa, discussing how the (post) colonial condition maintain a tension between two different interpretations of this relationship. At first it points as contemporary statements that Africa has no history has deep roots in interpretations of European thinkers who ask about the degree of Negro humanity (Kant, Hume, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Condorcet), about Africans and about Africa. In the following text sessions, it presents a critical analysis of the existence theories of a black soul. The analysis rests on the discussion of how the "national question" as a substitute for the "social question" operated for the organization of a culture of sycophancy that keeps the colonized away from the objective conditions of modern citizenship. The conclusion of the article is that "an old issue has not been resolved, the unit or the negative polarization of the world. The philosophers of the release clearly regarded the suppression of this fundamental contradiction by disconnecting the output of the Empire, the rupture of the bonds of servitude to the capitalist center. This approach involved the recovery of historical initiative by Periphery, from the perspective of Aimé Césaire, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcien Towa, Samir Amin. The idea of "division, separation of the body of the Empire, sought a transcendent goal which is the integration of individuals and nations in Africa and South America on a big universal joint project, independence, equality and reciprocity".
Africa; colonialism; African philosophy