THE FUTURE AND SURVIVAL OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY AS A GENRE

  • Ntui, Victor Ntui, Ph.D.
Keywords: African, Genre, Future, Philosophy, Survival

Abstract

This paper asserts that African Philosophy has come to stay as it is obvious from the protracted and heated debate that has consumed four decades of philosophical discourse. This is well captured in the sagacious words of Makinde “African Philosophy: The Demise of a Controversy” (2010). What now remains is the burial of the controversy and then the consolidation of African Philosophy looking forward. In this article, we chart the path forward in consolidating African Philosophy marking out the path it needs to tread to establish its relevance. The article opines that there ought to be a deepening of the philosophic enterprise, a critic of previous positions and the expansion of new areas and dimensions of African philosophy. The paper uses the philosophical method of critical examination.

Published
2021-01-27
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Articles