Occidentalist Discourses of the African French-speaking Intellectuals in 1940s-1950s (on the Material of the Journal Présence Africaine)

Student: Smagulov Sultan

Educational Programme: History of the Modern World (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This work is devoted to the analysis of discourses reproduced among African francophone intellectuals and using the category of the West to construct African identities based on the articles of the journal Présence Africaine - one of the largest contemporary periodicals focused on Africans and the African diaspora - for 1947-1959. The first chapter briefly describes the history of the emergence and development of the journal and African intellectuals, the second highlights the Occidentalist discourses presented in the journal, and the third analyzes the ways of constructing Africa using these discourses.

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