African Philosophy: A History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781715305659)

African philosophy as a systematic study has a very short history. The way of Africa and Africans, the understanding mentality, the reasoning and ideological senses. This history is also a very dense one, since actors sought to do in a few decades what would have been better done in many centuries. As a result, they also did in later years what ought to have been done earlier and vice versa, thus making the early and the middle epochs overlap considerably. The reason for this overtime endeavor is not far-fetched. Soon after colonialism, actors realized that Africa had been sucked into the global matrix unprepared. During colonial times, the identity of the African was European, his thought system, standard and even his perception of reality were structured by the colonial shadow which stood towering behind him. It was easy for the African to position himself within these Western cultural appurtenances even though they had no real-time connection with his being

Author: Sampson Igboanugo
ISBN-10: 1715305655
ISBN-13: 9781715305659
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2024
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d