Rethinking receptivity in a postcolonial context: recasting Sembène's Moolaade

Rethinking receptivity in a postcolonial context: recasting Sembène's Moolaade

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The main challenge confronting African postcolonial societies is the failure of political, social, and cultural transformation to confront and transcend the Boys athletic-sweaters limitations imposed by historical and contemporary contingencies.Hence the task of postcolonial theorists is to develop conceptual resources for a more sustained evaluation and analysis of the challenge.In this article, I recast Sembène's film, Moolaade, in a new relief to foreground the core issue of the postcolonial condition.

I proceed High Security to reappropriate Kompridis's concepts of ‘reflective disclosure’ and ‘receptivity’, which he develops from Heidegger's ‘world disclosure’, to devise what I term ‘postcolonial receptivity’.I then argue that postcolonial receptivity is an important concept that lends more intelligibility and coherence to the African quest to transform social and political forms of life.