EPISTEMICIDE:

STRATEGIES OF KILLING AFRICAN AND AFRODIASPRO BLACK KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The history of African philosophy has as one of its main problems justifying its very existence as an area of authentic and autonomous philosophical research and also, no less important and necessary, as strange as it may seem, to support the claim that black people are also beings. humans. Throughout the course of colonialism African human beings, men and women, were transformed into mere energy materials for the production of wealth. For these bodies to be molded to the status of mere object, thereby causing their ontological emptying, it took a metamorphosis that deprived of that being all its character of humanity, denying its rationality mainly. Western philosophy, especially during its Enlightenment phase, has greatly contributed to the emptying of being and the epistemological denial of African black people, this practice is known as epistemicide, the process of killing another's knowledge. In an attempt to understand this process and deconstruct the epistemic racism produced by Western philosophy, this text establishes a

affirmation of the ontological status of humanity of black people.

dialogue from Foucault, Ramose, Mbembe, Arentd, Carneiro and Mills to break with the hegemony of whiteness and establish new ways of conceiving black epistemologies from the rescue of memory and the