But Libyco-Berber also reveals a more insidious kind of destruction,
an/epistemological/violence inflicted by even the best-intentioned
Europeans. There are numerous stories of badly educated, arrogant
Europeans insisting that Africans not only never did, but never could,
write books. Even as sensitive a philosopher as the French sociologist
and theorist Pierre Bourdieu, who had deep personal ties to Algeria, and
who supported the Berber/Amazigh cultural movement, could essentially
make the same assumption. He insisted that the Kabyle people, whom he
lived among and studied for years, were pre-literate, although they used
(and still do) the characters of Libyco-Berber. Bourdieu’s is a
cautionary tale for intellectuals who are committed to social activism.
The passion – the need – to do what’s right is all too often steered by
the conviction that, precisely because we’re intellectuals,
we/know/what’s right. For Bourdieu, for example, the very ability to
think, to reflect about what’s right, is tied to literacy.
https://aeon.co/essays/africas-ancient-scripts-counter-european-ideas-of-literacy
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