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Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism.

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism.

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Duvenage exhorts African philosophy to maintain its own identity and independence, pointing out that one of the reasons why there is no philosophical tradition (even though there is a philosophical approach) is that [South] Africa did not make a clear and clean break with its colonial past. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 901

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Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism.
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African philosophy must arise from its own cultural circumstances rather than replicate other traditions.
African scholars collectively refute the colonial denial of African philosophy.
Africans hold the presented world to be the best possible and incorruptible one.
Post-colonial Africa needed African scholars and Africanity literature to achieve liberation.
South Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because its colonial break was incomplete.
Frans Dokman — Beyond Bantu Philosophy_ Contextualizing Placide Tempels_s Initiative in African Thought
Frans Dokman — Beyond Bantu Philosophy_ Contextualizing Placide Tempels_s Initiative in African Thought

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Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism.

Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism.

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