African feminist philosophy must be distinguished from Black feminist philosophy

Evidence

Oduk asserts that African philosophy is incomplete until it incorporates African feminist philosophy – a long neglected area of study by both African and Western philosophy. Oduk further identifies African feminist philosophy as a new area of study, which can be undertaken by both males and females and can be modelled on what he calls “Black feminist philosophy”. While in agreement with this postulation, this paper argues for an “African feminist philosophy”, as opposed to a “Black feminist philosophy”, because, in addition to provoking racial sentiments, the term falls into both a reductionist and ecological fallacy of assuming that everything African is Black and also that philosophy for African women can only be produced by Black people. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 962

Categorization

• QUESTION: The distinction between ‘African’ and ‘Black’ feminist philosophy is politically and theoretically charged — worth checking how other African feminist thinkers (Oyewumi, Nzegwu) frame this.
• DEEPTHINKING: The reductionist/ecological fallacy argument — that ‘Black’ conflates a racial category with a geographical-phenomenological heritage — is a dense, reusable objection with broad implications.