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Essay on African Philosophy
In this sustained and fine distinction attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, I rebuff the initiative that an African philosophy consists merely of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It must, arise from African thought it, relate to the culture out of which it grows, and provide the possibility of a continuation of a philosophy linked to culture. Offering a philosophical clarification and interpretation of the concepts in the ontology, philosophical psychology, theology, critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy as well as cultural values in the modern world.
More than three decades ago a definite and deliberate consensus had been reached among philosophers in and of Africa that there had been enough “second-order talk about whether there had been and was ‘philosophy’ in indigenous African cultural contexts” (Gordon, 1997). This meant that it was time to move on, and to produce individualized, specialized philosophical studies that arose from those cultural contexts.................
