Indigenous Humanities and Afrocentricity: Methodological Foundations and Interpretive Potential for the Study of African Literatures – A Theoretical Approach

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This article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework that articulates Indigenous Humanities and Afrocentricity as complementary theoretical perspectives for the study of African literatures. Its objective is to discuss the relevance of these approaches to the analysis of literary texts produced in non-Western cultural contexts. Methodologically, the study develops a theoretical and comparative analysis of both perspectives, situating them within contemporary debates on situated epistemologies and the decolonization of knowledge. Indigenous Humanities are approached as a methodological perspective oriented toward the valorization of local knowledges and community-based practices, while Afrocentricity proposes an epistemological recentring grounded in African matrices. The results highlight convergences between these approaches, particularly in the valorization of orature, local cosmologies, and symbolic dimensions frequently marginalized by Eurocentric literary criticism. It is concluded that the articulation between Indigenous Humanities and Afrocentricity broadens interpretive horizons and contributes to the renewal of a decolonized and plural literary criticism.

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