A REVIEW OF IKECHUKWU ANTHONY KANU’S AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: AN ONTOLOGICO-EXISTENTIAL HERMENEUTIC APPROACH TO CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Abstract

This well-articulated resource book in African Philosophy of 21 chapters and 416pages, was written by an erudite Augustinian Priest, Rev. Fr. Dr. Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, O.S.A., and published in 2015 in Jos by Augustinian Publications. The book, faithful to its name, is a critical exposition of classical and contemporary issues in African philosophy. The method of dialoguing between philosophy and culture through hermeneutics was adopted to accomplish the difficult task.African Philosophy: An Ontologico-Existential Hermeneutic Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issuesis a book anyone interested in African philosophy would like to read because of its rich content and novelty of its method which give flavor and dynamism to the study of African philosophy. The book is cast in a simple and flowing philosophical language, and to make itself a distinctively unique African philosophical resource material, the book is embellished with several concepts from the native African tongue.