ABSTRACT The phenomenon of “black-on-black” violence among the people of Africa has, ever since the advent of modernity/coloniality, been articulated in such a way that it presents victims as perpetrators. Thus, from the Mfecane violence of the “pre-colonial” era to the xenophobic/Afrophobic violence of the “post-colonial” era in Africa, incidents of black-on-black violence have always attracted explanations that cast doubt on the humanity of the black subject, through the colonial strategy of inventing and inverting causation. This colonial strategy entails both mis-presenting the epochal history of coloniality by representing it in terms of rupture instead of continuity, as well as representing the indigenous African subject as inherently violent. I argue in this article that black-on-black violence is a product of coloniality—a racist global power structure that makes incidents of “non-revolutionary violence” among the oppressed black subject inevitable. Thus, I deploy the case of the Mfecane violence of the “pre-colonial” era in southern Africa, and the Afro-phobic attacks on foreign nationals in “post-apartheid” South Africa to unmask the longue durée of coloniality, and its role of manufacturing blackon-black violence among the black people of Africa.

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在非洲制造黑人对黑人的暴力：南非 Mfecane 和非洲恐惧症/仇外心理的非殖民主义视角

摘要 自从现代性/殖民主义出现以来，非洲人民中“黑人对黑人”的暴力现象就一直以这样一种方式表达，即把受害者描述为肇事者。因此，从“前殖民”时代的Mfecane暴力到“后殖民”时代的非洲仇外/非洲暴力，黑人对黑人的暴力事件总是引来对人性产生怀疑的解释。黑人主体，通过发明和颠倒因果关系的殖民策略。这种殖民战略既需要通过以破裂而不是连续性的方式来表现殖民时代的划时代历史，也需要将非洲土著主体表现为内在的暴力。我在这篇文章中认为，黑人对黑人的暴力是殖民主义的产物——一种种族主义的全球权力结构，使得受压迫的黑人主体之间的“非革命暴力”事件不可避免。因此，我通过南部非洲“前殖民”时代的 Mfecane 暴力事件和“种族隔离后”南非对外国公民的非洲恐惧症袭击事件来揭露殖民主义的长期持续性及其作用在非洲黑人中制造黑人之间的暴力。