Consciência histórica enquanto fundamento para o resgate da identidade cultural moçambicana em Severino Elias Ngoenha

Abstract

The present scientific monograph is entitled Historical consciousness as a foundation for the rescue of Mozambican cultural identity in Severino Elias Ngoenha. The monograph reflects on the role of historical consciousness in rescuing cultural identity. Scientific monograph conceptualizes that colonialism, neocolonialism, globalization and Western epistemological domination contributed to a crisis of cultural identity in Mozambique, denying Africans their historicity and culture. This scenario produced a process of alienation that persists to this day. This work, We seek to analyze how Severino Elias Ngoenha's philosophical proposal can offer concrete alternatives for the rescue of cultural identity, taking into account that it advocates taking historical consciousness in the political and historical sphere, and not in the sociological or anthropological sphere. Ngoenha maintains that each people has its own history and tradition, and that historical consciousness allows restoring the values, habits and customs that make up cultural identity. This approach makes it possible to break with colonial and neocolonial structures that still influence the political, social and cultural reality of the country. Mozambican cultural identity is manifested by taking of historical awareness and constitutes a fundamental element in the promotion of interculture, in the context in which culture becomes a reference for reflection on political, historical, philosophical and interdisciplinary. Ngoenha's proposal includes the construction of a participatory federalist State, based on respect between cultures, equality, justice and freedom of expression as possibility of overcoming the identity crisis. The research used bibliographic review as a method, supported by hermeneutics and comparative textual analysis. The work structure is organized in three chapters.(Tradução nossa)