“NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE AFRICANS; LIKEWISE, NOT ALL AFRICANS ARE BLACK PEOPLE. BLACK People who reject Africa and Settlers who embrace Africa and see themselves as Africans can be seen as collateral to this Paradigm change.
— African Proverb: A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not in the branch but in its own wings.
Afromunisation:
A Paradigm Shift for African Liberation, Justice, and Sustainability
This is a working paper and a work in progress intended for peer-reviewed publication.
Abstract
This Work introduces Afromunisation as an IDEOLOGY of change, a move beyond African Renaissance and a paradigm shift for genuine African liberation struggles, justice, and sustainability. Afromunisation, as a theory of change, is rooted in African-centered epistemologies, Pan-Africanism, Afrocentrism, postcolonial critiques, and post-development theories.
Afromunisation is conceptualized as a transformative framework for re-membering African histories, cultures, and political structures, while confronting colonial legacies and promoting a united African renaissance. The theory revisualizes Africa’s liberation struggles (pre- and post-independence to date) through community resilience, diaspora engagement, and the reclamation of indigenous knowledge.
It seeks to immunize Africa against exploitative global agendas by centering African spirituality, environmental justice, and governance models in re-imagining Africa’s future.
The paper draws on empirical examples across Africa, theoretical contributions from Fanon, Foucault, and Cheikh Anta Diop, and critiques of mainstream development paradigms to propose an alternative path towards liberation and self-determined futures.
Keywords: Afromunisation, Pan-Africanism, Afrocentrism, postcolonial theory, African
renaissance, theory of change.
Source
Author: Mbolo C. Yufanyi Movuh, PhD
Research Initiated: 2019
First Workshop Paper: 2025
Contact: ymbolo(@)peace-int.org
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