Os fantasmas das línguas dos colonizadores na luta pela emancipação do povo preto

The ghosto of the languages of the colonizers in the fight for the emanciátion of the black people

Abstract

This article aims to explain the issue of non-use of African languages, by Africans and Afro-diaspora themselves, in the process of the struggle for emancipation and recognition to eradicate racism and Western epistemicide. The fight against the silencing of African languages ​​must be seen as a new paradigm for combating racism. It is important to emphasize that language cannot be seen as just a way of communicating, they carry with them a wealth of knowledge that marks the identity and thinking of a people, cultural traits, local knowledge such as: religion, history and all social situations. economic of a people. Therefore, killing a language is killing the identity of a people. Language must be considered as the vitality of an ethnic linguistic group because it is the essence of human beings as a people. In Africa the question of language was connected with the question of spirituality and the body. In this article we will use the term black because we do not agree that the black attribute is pejorative. As it is about color, I will always refer to Afro-black people.