Abstract: The imperialist era is over but its culture of modernism again holds our interest.The new postcolonial arrangements of power have left us wondering about a possible non-Western history of modernism and what it might mean.With the coming of the new epistemology "the contemporary", the postcolonial critique established the ground for it, and the blueprint for Modernites Plurielles was depicted, modernism was regarded as "art without borders".In Hegelian fashion, Enwezor argues that African contemporary art is not a postmodernist "rejection of modernity and modernism" but, on the contrary, the result of modernity's "teleological unfolding", modernity cannot be disavowed, it can only be worked through.