COLONIAL EDUCATION IN CHEIKH HAMIDOU KANE’S AMBIGUOUS ADVENTURE UNDER MALEK BENNABI’S EYES: TOWARDS AN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM

Abstract : This article aims to view colonial education in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure from a local islamic philosophical perspective, namely from the Algerian Malek Bennabi’s ‘s theory of civilization . The main idea around which the article revolves is the religious idea which Malek Bennabi sees as the pivot for the appearance end development of civilisations. Many articles on Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure were elaborated, but the role played by religion in creating harmony and then emptiness due to its absence was overlooked. It is this very importance that the French colonizing project aims at destroying via the erasure of Allah in the African soul of the best Diallobé child, Samba Diallo. The article concludes that following the colonizing project, the Bennabian civilisational religious idea is -and must be- substituted by the colonizing educational idea which, in fact, resembles the cannon and exceeds its effect if one sees the influence of colonial education on Africans epitomized in madness and inertia. Keywords: Cheikh hamidou Kane, Malek Bennabi, Ambiguous Adventure, the religious idea