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The Question of African Philosophy
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Odera Oruka as mentioned in this paper identified four trends, perhaps more appropriately approaches, in current African philosophy, and presented a paper at the International Symposium in Memory of Dr William Amo, the Ghanaian philosopher who taught in German universities in the early part of the eighteenth century.Abstract:
Philosophy in Africa has for more than a decade now been dominated by the discussion of one compound question, namely, is there an African philosophy, and if there is, what is it? The first part of the question has generally been unhesitatingly answered in the affirmative. Dispute has been primarily over the second part of the question as various specimens of African philosophy presented do not seem to pass muster. Those of us who refuse to accept certain specimens as philosophy have generally been rather illogically said also to deny an affirmative answer to the first part of the question. In a paper presented at the International Symposium in Memory of Dr William Amo, the Ghanaian philosopher who taught in German universities in the early part of the eighteenth century, Professor Odera Oruka identified four trends, perhaps more appropriately approaches, in current African philosophy.read more
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African philosophy : an introduction
TL;DR: The question of African philosophy do we have an African philosophy? investigating African philosophy the African philosophical tradition the African foundations of Greek philosophy time in Yoruba thought casual theory in Akwapim Akan philosophy how not to compare African thought with Western thought as mentioned in this paper.