Turning to Critical Interculturality to Make up for Identity Crises in Hybrid Ethnic and Cultural Regions. A Timely Alternative for Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about critical interculturality as a timely alternativo to identity crises stemming from ethno-cultural diversity management in post-colonial identity construction processes in Sub-Saharan African countries. It reports a qualitative research work in the form of a case study, collecting data by means of a documentary analysis, and processing information by means of analytic induction. The análisis highlighted that for Sub-Saharan Africa, largely dominated by Bantu peoples, whose pre-colonial worldview was rooted in a paradigm of horizontality, critical interculturality is particularly pertinent. This is so because the proposed approach involves revaluating a civilization fostered by the reinterpretation of its most autochtonous cultural origins and identity idiosyncrasies.