Keyword : Africa, Western, Philosophy, Tradition, Thought.
Author(s) : JOHN JUSTICE NWANKWO And JUDITH GURE GWATANA
Abstract :
Every philosophy has its root. The root eventually forms the approach of the people and their way of thinking. Unfortunately, the overbearing dominance of Western Philosophy on other Area Philosophies is no longer healthy, since it even seems to stiffen the peculiarity of their way of thinking through self-imposition. In the Universities, Courses are introduced as if they only belong to Greek philosophy. The title of Courses ought to be particular with certain prefix such as “African”, “Greek”, “Western”, “Eastern” Philosophies. However, the prefixing of philosophical courses only exists when it is outside Western Philosophy. Even the prefixing of philosophical courses once they have to do with other climes other than the West shows that these other thought systems are not completely accepted as true philosophy. Yet, it is obviously an undeniable reality that there are thought-systems in these climes that qualify and are indeed philosophy. Africa and her traditional philosophy happen to be a victim of this misconstrued impression about philosophical thinking leading to the old but unending debate if there is African philosophy. Probably, this friction in the acceptance of African traditional thought emanates from a wrong dimension of comparing African traditional thought with Western thought. For this reason, Kwasi Wiredu deemed it necessary to devote a chapter of his book “Philosophy and an African Culture” to “How not to compare African traditional thought with Western thought”. This research work specializes on critically analyzing this position of Wiredu using the descriptive method.
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