A REVIEW OF KANU’S “IGWEBUIKE AND THE LOGIC (NKA) OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY”

Abstract

This piece, published in 2017 is a work of great attempt on one of the most dreaded areas of Philosophy, the Logic and in particular the African Logic. It is noteworthy that, while some promising African scholars were still at large on the possibility of African Philosophy, Kanu has started discussing the logic that is the Nka of African Philosophy. In this paper, Kanu painstakingly dwelt comprehensively on the logic of African Philosophy. Logic as a major branch of philosophical discourse is the science of unaided correct reasoning knowing full well that correct or good-exact ideas do not fall from heaven. Logic, from the Greek word, logos, therefore, is an art of right and sound reasoning. According to Aristotle, logic is the new and necessary reasoning. Logic as an organon of knowledge is the product of human mind as well as that of a man as an animal cogitans, thinking animal and animal rationalis, rational animal relating it with the concept of Igwebuike, the African philosophy of complementarity and solidarity which sees power as belonging to the multitude.