Conclusion
Africa is rich with utopic registers of the future. It would seem that there were others out there who were worried about the proliferation of African utopic registers and criticized the utopic registers of the future as underpinned by elements of essentialism. Chinua Achebe responded to them very well:
You have all heard of African personality; of African democracy, of the African way to socialism, of negritude, and so on. They are all props we fashioned at different times to help us get on our feet again. Once we are up we shall not need any of them (Achebe in Ahluwalia 2001: 26).
It seems that at this time Africa is not yet up and running on its own terms, hence the proliferation of African utopic registers of the future. They emerge from a context and they capture aspirations of a people who are struggling to emerge from the underside of Euromodernity and are eager to recapture and shape their own destinies and invent their own futures. Nothing short of a completion of the incomplete decolonization will turn African utopic registers of the future into reality. This is why such movements as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter have received popular support among African and Black circles, as they are seen as carrying on the decolonization struggles for re-existence.