AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL-DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURALISM

The dissolution of the European colonial empires since the Second Worl d War led to a shift in the locus of the production of knowledge about Asian and African cultures from the colonizers to the indigenous peop les themselves. The elocution of the cultures of the colonized and mar ginalized thus became a multivocal concern signified by the advocacy f or continental, race, and colour identification, enriched by gender, s exuality, womanist, lesbian, gay and aging issues. Hegemonic metanarra tives have been debunked. Emerging from this socially-predicated epist eme is an advocacy for a political agenda that recommends affirmative diversity as the way forward in a multicultural world.