The part about finding an "African identity" that isn't merely "western" gave me pause because I come from a country that was colonized considerably earlier and

The part about finding an "African identity" that isn't merely "western" gave me pause because I come from a country that was colonized considerably earlier and, like the rest of the Americas, had its native population decimated so completely and its identity so completely replaced, practically nothing is left but "western"... And I find myself completely alright with that, so it's harder to me to see the importance of such an identity.