Follow the Raven and the Dove: Survival and Regeneration in Genesis 6-9 and in the Cameroonian Postcolony-

Resumo

The African/Cameroonian postcolony has partially exited the legal, narrative, and psychosocial fabric of colonial deluge. Reading the independent nation state as the “ark” of survival, the paper argues for a covenantal reading of the primacy of nonhuman agents (the raven and the dove) in trailblazing postdiluvian life (Genesis 8), which stands in tension and contrast with the covenantal text of Genesis 9 that establishes the dominance of humans over non-humans. This paper proposes an a negritudian reading of the flood story and its after story to illumine the dialectical relation between the divine, the human, and non-human creatures in shaping postdiluvian
life.