REVIEW OF AFRICAN METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY AND A NEW LOGIC: A DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

The book is an effort at intellectual decolonization that employs the tool of conversational thinking. As the powerhouse of human thoughts and actions, mental faculties are highly pivotal in decolonization. Little wonder why the great Jamaican singer Bob Marley made a clarion call in his Redemption Song: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” As if to proffer a sanatio in radice (healing from the root) to mental colonization and as a sort of response to the above call from the great musician, Jonathan Chimakonam, who has in no small measure distinguished himself in breaking new horizons in the fields of Logic and African Philosophy, and his co-author Uchenna Ogbonnaya undertook the task of intellectually dismantling coloniality, employing the instrumentum laboris ‘conversational thinking’, which builds on Ezumezu logic, a homegrown African logic.