What does it mean to be forever framed as a Muslim cultural “Other”? And what kind of epistemic closure does such framing imply? The little that is written (academic and popular) about the Black African Muslim experience and encounter with Islam in South Africa often entraps this sector within the theme of “conversion to Islam”. This essay examines, therefore, the following question: to what extent does the theme and “narrative of conversion” perform a sort of racial coding that unintentionally writes off Black African Muslim identity as less authentic and therefore not fully Muslim? Taking as its data the available literature on the Black African Muslim sector, limited as it is, as well as selected pieces by a Black African Muslim writer and poet, the essay posits a reading that is attentive to Black African Muslim self-understanding, subjectivities and sense of self beyond the moment of conversion.

永远被视为穆斯林文化的“其他”意味着什么？这种构架意味着什么样的认知封闭？关于黑人非洲穆斯林的经历以及在南非与伊斯兰教的相遇的文章（学术性和流行性）常常使这一部门陷入“转变为伊斯兰教”的主题之内。因此，本文探讨了以下问题：主题和“ conversion依叙事”在何种程度上执行了某种种族编码，无意间将黑人非裔穆斯林的身分低估为真实，因此不完全是穆斯林？本文以黑人非洲穆斯林领域的现有文献为研究数据，并对其进行了限制，并从黑人非洲穆斯林作家和诗人的精选作品中选出一种读物，着眼于黑人非洲穆斯林的自我理解，