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

  • Philip Adah Idachaba, Ph.D

Abstract

The paper is a modest effort at articulating an African logic which is the basis or source for the now fully developed discipline of African Philosophy. Its basic presupposition is that asking if there is an African logic is an illogical question; for if there were no African logic, we cannot be talking about African Philosophy. Philosophy is intimately connected to logic and in fact, it is logic that makes philosophy. For this reason, when there is an African Philosophy, an African logic must follow. At a second level, philosophy is obviously a culture bound engagement and since logic is part of philosophy, logic also has to be culture bound. Therefore, there has to be an African logic which gives meaning to and determines what African Philosophy is. What then is this African logic?

Published
2022-07-03
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