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African philosophy. African philosophy is the philosophical discourse produced using indigenous African thought systems. African philosophers are found in the various academic fields of present philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. [1] It discusses substantive issues from an African perspective.
It is a philosophy that supports collectivism over individualism. Ubuntu asserts that society gives human beings their humanity. An example is a Zulu -speaking person who when commanding to speak in Zulu would say " khuluma isintu ", which means "speak the language of people".
One of Wiredu's concerns when defining "African Philosophy" was keeping colonialised African philosophy in a separate category from precolonised Africa. [8] Wiredu (1998) proposes that the African philosopher has a unique opportunity to re-examine many of the assumptions of Western philosophers by subjecting them to an interrogation based on African languages.
Traditional African religions generally hold the beliefs of life after death (a spirit world or realms, in which spirits, but also gods reside), with some also having a concept of reincarnation, in which deceased humans may reincarnate into their family lineage (blood lineage), if they want to, or have something to do.
He held visiting professorships at universities across the world and published extensively on philosophy, theology and African oral traditions. [6] Mbiti's seminal book, African Religions and Philosophy (1969), was the first work to challenge Christian assumption that traditional African religious ideas were "demonic and anti-Christian". [7]
Henry Odera Oruka. Henry Odera Oruka (1 June 1944, in Siaya County – 9 December 1995, in Nairobi) was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for "Sage Philosophy". It was a project started in the 1970’s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities.
Ubuntu theology is a Southern African Christian perception of the African Ubuntu philosophy which recognizes the humanity of a person through a person's relationship with other persons. [1] It is best known through the writings of the Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, who, drawing from his Christian faith, theologized Ubuntu by a model of ...
Traditional African religions also have elements of fetishism, shamanism and veneration of relics. [ 22 ] Nigerian American professor of indigenous African religions at Harvard University , Jacob Olupona summarized the many traditional African religions as complex animistic religious traditions and beliefs of the African people before the ...