Reimagining indigenous African ontological entanglement and resilience adaptation in the Anthropocene

Abstract

Thinking about and with indigenous African community has become crucially important in discussion regarding modern ontologies in the dominant tropes on resilience and the Anthropocene. Indigenous African community today is seen by many as perhaps the most paradigmatic figure in generating alternative ways of being about climate resilience/environmental adaptation in debates in the Anthropocene. I examine how indigenous more-than-human hybrid ontologies as more disruptive space have facilitated thinking within dominant tropes on resilience and the Anthropocene. This paper argues that reductionist modern ontology, fails to fully acknowledge how indigenous African community is being productively grasped and for more recent resilience discourses in thinking within contemporary Anthropocene. This is important for enabling futural alternatives and understandings in an avowedly critical interdisciplinary thought that is applicable to the heterogeneity of African contexts.