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Agnes Heller As long as social institutions or *** Introduction: Postmodern Ambivalence and Africa The concept of postmodernism has an ambivalent career in African studies similar to what Elisio Macamo (2005) refers to as the ambivalence of modernity.
My arguments in this essay are largely conciliatory; I attempt to define what I see as the postmodern minima that will underscore the theoretical understanding of the intellectual landscape especially in African philosophy.
Wiredu’s programmatic statement of the direction of his African philosophical project comes very early in Philosophy and an African Culture: 57 Contemporary Africa is in the middle of a transition from a traditional to a modern society.
Another Face of Modernity: The Postmodern as a Crisis Moment Let us begin with a pertinent question: Is postmodernism a phenomenon in the world or a theoretical construction projected on the world for whatever pragmatic, psychological or institutional reasons?30 This question is necessitated by the myriad paths the idea of the postmodern has taken in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, advertizing, and so on.
Given this perspective, it seems possible to read the postmodern as a late flowering, or late modern, Romanticism; in Waugh’s words, "the latest version in a long-standing attempt to address social and political issues through an aestheticized view of the world…" (Ibid, p.
265) In other words, this gives us the leeway to reaffirm the earlier conclusion, implicit in the Yoruba concept of olaju, that what we call modernity is just an incremental illumination or enlightenment that a culture derived from alien or traditional conceptual or practical frameworks for its temporal needs.