Modern Ideologies of Race, Culture and Identity in Africa

To know African literature, it is required to know Africa at its back. It is to examine how ‘Africa’ operates as a referent and as a politics in modern ideologies of race, culture and identity. Hence these perceptions of race, culture and identity are interconnected through their social milieu which refers black identities and cultures. These are the theorization of formations and necessity to recognize not only by the interrelatedness of the streams of social and cultural identity but also the ways in which the present has been constructed by its historical traces. The tension between African and European contexts reveals that how Africa and its identities have been crucially framed by the impact of forces and interests from outside the continent. These are the attempts for identity, assertion and fight for human rights at equal platform. Succinctly the African history is divided into four parts.