South Africa is the intellectual epicentre of the ideology of African renaissance and of the growing scholarly attention to decoloniality as an epistemological and aesthetic agenda of decolonisation. Paradoxically, the country is also a xenophobic crime scene: the continental state associated with endemic Afrophobic violence. This is a contradiction with both contemporary and historical significance. Positing this framing of a contradictory impulse should come with a caveat: Black South African intellectual investments in pan-Africanist projects were part of a broader cosmopolitan imaginary necessitated by South African colonial history and were thus partly projects of necessity. The origins of this politics of self-fashioning were not exclusively pan-Africanist.

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南非当地和大陆背景下的非洲恐惧症

南非是非洲复兴意识形态的知识中心，也是学术界日益关注非殖民化作为非殖民化的认识论和美学议程的中心。矛盾的是，该国也是一个仇外犯罪现场：这与地方性的恐非暴力有关的大陆国家。这是一个既具有当代意义又具有历史意义的矛盾。假设这种矛盾冲动的框架应该伴随着一个警告：南非黑人知识分子对泛非主义项目的投资是南非殖民历史所必需的更广泛的世界性想象的一部分，因此部分是必要的项目。这种自我塑造政治的起源并不完全是泛非主义的。