The European scientific and popular imagination has always resorted to fabrication when conceiving and understanding Africa, presenting unverified, often fictitious facts as true. All our knowledge about Africa, including our imagination of its history, should therefore be questioned. Did African history really only begin with contact with Europe, i.e. with the violent intrusion of the other, or did it perhaps exist much earlier, together with dynamic social structures? How is it that we learn about it as if it were almost non-existent? Does African history, worthy of mention and serious study, even exist? The performance The Temporality of Others through movement, sound, and words from the poetic essay Discourse on Colonialism (Založba /*cf., 2009, translation: Zoja Skušek) by Martinican thinker Aimé Césaire, Critique of the Black Mind (ZRC SAZU, 2019, translation: Suzana Koncut) by Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe, and poems from the collection The Eloquent Gift by Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare (Cankarjeva založba, 2004, translation: Jure Potokar) with references to certain events from the complex history of the African continent, deconstructs the myth of African ahistoricity and invites us to reflect more broadly on the prejudices ingrained in our systems of knowledge. The performance is being created as part of the Africa Initiative, which uses literary and theoretical texts, dance, and music to approach various topics from African realities in an interdisciplinary and decolonial way.