Even ethnophilosophy’s fiercest critics now concede these studies are necessary

Evidence

There seems to be a realisation now that such a heritage is integral to African philosophy. There was, of course, general hesitance to engage fully with the various indigenous philosophies across the continent, and this hesitancy has been self-perpetuating, creating a problem that I examined in detail elsewhere (Mungwini, 2019a) and which will be analysed below. … He goes further to admit the value of these works by acknowledging that, “in fact, I clearly recognized, shortly after publishing [African Philosophy: Myth and Reality], that such studies were not only legitimate but absolutely necessary” (Hountondji 2018, p. 11). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 373

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to chapter material on Horkheimer-school debates where earlier dismissals got amended by their own authors, and to reader’s broader interest in intellectual-history revisions.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing Mungwini 2019a for the self-perpetuating hesitance argument and how it now gets resolved.