Africa cannot claim pure history because the West shaped it

Evidence

This paper aligns itself with the latter view, arguing that African philosophy cannot be a standalone, further upholding Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy. Firstly, African history has already been negatively affected by both slavery and colonialism. Secondly, Africa is now part of the global village. The concept of an African philosophy that disregards opposing thoughts from the West would be limiting insofar as it neglects the process of slavery, its ensuing process of colonization, and the First and Second World Wars, which have, by proxy, become regrettably but undeniably part of African history. The movement of people from the West to Africa and vice versa has made it impossible for both the West and Africa to claim a pure history and culture free from influences of the other. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 913

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• XREF: connects to: Hegel’s philosophy constructed Africa as historyless to justify European conquest — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 39