African philosophy is formulated collectively rather than by named individuals

Evidence

In the African way of thinking, since it is from the whole culture that a thought is formulated, we can delineate two types of thinkers or philosophers. Both have an impersonal nature because they both refer not to an individual but to different groups or categories of people belonging to the same nation. The subject to whom we are referring to is the community, the collective: these thinkers or “philosophers” could be called natural thinkers or natural philosophers. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 316

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘natural thinkers/philosophers’ as the collective, impersonal subject of African thought.