Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy

Chimakonam, Jonathan O.; Chemhuru, Munamato

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“…The second idea that illustrates the importance of the interconnectedness of epistemic agents in the mode of justifying knowledge claim is the idea of conversationalism. Conversationalism or conversational thinking is an idea developed by Jonathan Chimakonam (2017Chimakonam ( , 2018) and adopted by the Conversational School of Philosophy (Chimakonam 2015a;Chimakonam and Egbai 2016;Egbai and Chimakonam 2019;Chimakonam and Ogbonnaya 2021). It is informed by the idea of relationship or commune in African thought.…”

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African epistemologies and the decolonial curriculum

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Sewchurran

2023

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In this article we argue that a discussion on African epistemologies must precede the quest for both the decolonisation of knowledge and curriculum in Africa. Decolonial thought in Africa is significant because it focuses, among other things, on the decolonisation of Western epistemological supremacy within the space where knowledge is produced and transferred. We contend that knowledge acquired through the process of learning must resonate with people’s lived experiences and realities. To meaningfully pursue that involves placing in focus people’s modes of thought and epistemic ideas, in the interpretation of their experiences and the realities around them. This article argues that designing a decolonised curriculum that centres unique African intellectual ideas should be informed by the understanding of African epistemologies, whose principle of epistemic validation is grounded on the idea of interconnectedness in African thought. Considering a decolonial curriculum as an attempt in pursuing ‘centring’ is to align curricula with the modes of knowledge validation in African thought.

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African epistemologies and the decolonial curriculum

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Sewchurran

2023

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“…Faced with these derogatory remarks, academic African philosophy started concerning itself with questions of whether an African philosophy exists; if it exists, what it is; by whom, and how, African philosophy must be done for it to exist if it is not yet in existence. This is why, for example, the African philosopher Jonathan Chimakonam (2014) claims that, unlike with Western philosophy where the philosophical inquiry was initiated by wonder , it is frustration that inspires African philosophers. The situation around academic African philosophers writing in the mid‐twentieth century (during and immediately after colonialism) required them to investigate the situation that racist Western philosophers put them into.…”

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African philosophy cannot be a thing

Odeyemi

2024

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This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments encounter. It argues that we must be careful in our attempt to define African philosophy conceptually. Because to define it is to limit it—and to limit it is to conserve it and lead it to a cesspool. It also argues that finding a single meaning for African philosophy is not a rich endeavour, because, just like Western philosophy, African philosophy should not be a thing but be a vast array of things. The argument, one hopes, is taken as a normative rather than a merely prescriptive enterprise.

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Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy

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African epistemologies and the decolonial curriculum

African epistemologies and the decolonial curriculum

African philosophy cannot be a thing

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