Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources) and terra nullius (empty land), some indigenous people wittingly and unwittingly increasingly devolved their heritages to the colonialists that benefited from the African transitions. The point here is that unlike “Bushmen” and those that practiced transhumance, contemporary Africans are forced to transition, to change and to transform away from owning and controlling their tangible and intangible resources, including land, culture, laws, religions, polities, economies, livestock, families, marriages, and so on. Whereas “Bushmen” and transhumance migrated and transitioned while retaining ownership and control over their land, forests, livestock, and so on, contemporary Africans are forced to transition in ways that divorce them from their families, marriages, cultures, religions, polities, and from ownership of their material resources. Because Eurocentric forms of transition put African institutions and resources on the chopping boards, we argue that this kind of transition is cannibalistic. Made to believe that transition is easier to accomplish without the supposed burden of repossessing ownership and control over one’s resources, Africans are witnessed as disinherited and wandering around the world arguably in ways that even precolonial “Bushmen” and transhumance pastoralists would not envy. There is no justice in “transitional justice” that transitions indigenous people from their heritages.

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比“布什曼”和超人类更糟糕？运输学与非洲遗产的弹性蚕食

尽管以欧洲为中心的学者们是根据西方的进化进步而不是反进化的倒退来对世界进行理论化的，但本文采用了不同的观点。一些土著人被迫从有形和无形的遗产，从其家庭和婚姻，文化，社会，政治和经济过渡，以合法化帝国对res nullius（无主资源）和terra nullius（空地）的主张合法化并在不知不觉中将其遗产移交给了受益于非洲过渡的殖民主义者。这里的要点是，与“布什曼”和实行超人类的人不同，当代非洲人被迫转变，改变和转变，不再拥有和控制其有形和无形的资源，包括土地，文化，法律，宗教，政治，经济，牲畜，家庭，婚姻等等。布希曼人和超自然者在保留所有权和对土地，森林，牲畜等的所有权和控制权的情况下迁移和过渡，而当代非洲人则被迫以使他们脱离家庭，婚姻，文化，宗教，政治和社会的方式过渡。从他们的物质资源的所有权。因为以欧洲为中心的过渡形式使非洲的机构和资源处于砧板上，所以我们认为这种过渡是食人的。确信无需承担所有权和控制资源的负担，过渡就更容易实现，目睹非洲人被剥夺了继承权，并在世界各地游荡，甚至可以说是殖民前的“布什曼”和超人类的牧民都不会羡慕的。在“过渡时期正义”中没有正义能够使土著人民脱离其遗产。