European Renaissance and Enlightenment put an end to the superiority of God over Man, while Eurocentrism regards Greece, Rome and Europe as the origins of civilization and, accordingly endows them with some privileges. In contrast, Afrocentrism holds that human history and civilization originates in Africa, by stressing that black people and Egyptians made outstanding contributions to the evolution of human history and civilization, and thus provides some theoretical propositions for African countries' independence from their colonizers in the 1960s and also for postcolonialism theory. For more than half a century, Western scholars, especially those in the margins have tried to adopt history, anthropology, philosophy, archaeology, mythology and other disciplines to change the both/and, or either/or relations between Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism. But no significant achievements were made. New scholarship for African Studies in China is found increasingly important in the context that the Chinese people and the black people had the same destiny which facilitates the cultural and political exchange between China and Africa. Chinese scholars put aside not only the concepts of ″Eurocentrism″ and ″white supremacy″, but also the idea of ″Afrocentrism″ in their research, preferring the concept of the shared community of human destiny by Xi Jinping, who deems that in pursuit of their own country's interests, they should take the legitimate concerns of all other countries into account, so as to promote a world common development and prosperity. In 2000, China and 53 African countries that had established diplomatic relations jointly established ″the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation″, aiming at achieving mutually-beneficial cooperation to build a closer China-Africa community with a shared future for humanity. Ethiopia's population ranks the second largest and it is one of the oldest countries in Africa. Ethiopians boast that it is also the only country in Africa that has not been completely conquered by European colonists. However, how can Ethiopia be scrutinized in an all-round way in the context of modernism? To find the answer, the author tries to elucidate what is Ethiopia's historical position in Africa, and what leads Ethiopia to the road of rejuvenation, and what impact it has on Africa, Europe and even the United States. Ethiopian, known nowadays as an African version of China, possesses six forces of indigenous impulses, which not only facilitates an African Rise, but also plays an integral part in the construction of a new World Order and a global community with a shared future for humanity, and which are also the departure of research in this essay, namely, taking Ethiopian as the origin of African civilization, taking Ethiopian Movement as African political tradition, taking Ethiopian Amharic language--the only surviving language as African weapon against colonialism, taking Ethiopian philosophy as African existential sagacity, taking Ethiopian art as African cultural essence, and lastly taking Ethiopian Airs as aspiration of modernism of African literature. Ethiopia, as a successful evidence to prove itself,has also provided proof in support of China's idea of a global community with a shared future for mankind which embodies poly-centrisms instead of mono-centrism.
谭惠娟 梅风. 非洲反殖民传统的灯塔:埃塞俄比亚文化诸相略论[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2020, 6(1): 120-.
Tan Huijuan Mei Feng. On Ethiopianisms as Beacon of Africana Anti-colonialist Traditions. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2020, 6(1): 120-.