A REVIEW OF PROF. KANU‟S “IGWEBUIKE AS A TREND IN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY”

Abstract

After conquering the question of whether there is an African philosophy, emphasis of African philosophers shifted to what constitutes African philosophy. Sequel to this development, African philosophy began to be categorized into trends and schools by some African scholars. In furtherance of this development, Kanu categorized the trends or schools of African philosophy into the universalist trend, particularist trend, eclectic trend, national ideological trend, sage philosophy, literary school and hermeneutic trend, each of which he highlighted in the paper under review with the aim of establishing Igwebuike as an eclectic ontoligco – Existential Trend in African philosophy.