“THE ONLY REALITY IN BLACK AFRICA BACK THEN”: BOUBOU HAMA AND THE INTEGRATION BETWEEN TECHNIQUE AND SPIRITUALITY

Abstract

In Niger of the 1900s, the intellectual Boubou Hama worked for the preservation and promotion of a cultural framework. From a specific understanding about “traditional knowledge”, he sought to offer answers in his own time. Under the impacts of colonization, Hama wished Africa to know its own values and conceptions of the world.