TEACHING AND LEARNING BLACK PHILOSOPHIES: Interview with Renato Noguera

Abstract

Does a good interview need an entry? Do we really need a presentation from our interviewee here? If so, we will be synthetic, because we are convinced that Renato Noguera's speech matters. We will let the interview say "something" about it that can not be pinched quickly from its curriculum lattes, bibliographic production, lectures and academic works, not without saying, however, that Noguera is one of those thinkers who bring knowledge to people. He does not write or speak as if he were in a cathedral, starched and aseptic. Noguera is pop: he gives interviews in television programs with the same competence with which he guides his students, develops researches and writes books. For some time, Renato Noguera is synonymous with innovative production that contradicts the black epistemicide and shaves the gaps of philosophy. Our interviewee thickens the reflections in this issue of Odeere / UESB, whose main theme is "Afrophilosophies and Diasporic Knowledge: Black Philosophies in the Palms of the Hands", questioning the silences of a white-cis-euro-hetero- committed to the fight against racism and equanimity. We thank him for giving us some of his time, having the internet served as a link. To you we dedicate this work, inviting you to follow a reading course, which, if we agree, will present: i) reflection and advancement of knowledge about a black philosophy; ii) other paths to philosophy, more to the "south"; iii) reinventions of research, because, now, the interviewee has turned to philosophy for childhood. It's because? Because Ernes, Ibejis, Exu Mirim, the boy Kiriku give what to philosophize, as much as Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse, Rico Rich or the Goofy, does not it? This interview is not just for philosophers, for researchers of categories such as race, ethnicity and cognitive justice. It serves those interested in teaching and learning black philosophies, in order to denigrate Life in a proactive and biocentric articulation in favor of the Community. In one word: Ubuntu! 

Keywords: Philosophy; Afrocentricity; Africa