Full African philosophy spans diverse strands traceable from Egyptian Kemet

Evidence

Based on this view, this paper accomplishes two tasks. First, on the surface it explores the features that separate Western from African conceptualizations of philosophy pursuant to providing an answer to Placide Tempels’s question on the existence of an African ontology. Tracing the origins of and developments in African philosophy, from Egyptian Kemet to date, is a methodology that partly helps to accomplish this task. The study does not claim to exhaust all that can be said about African philosophy, but it succeeds in highlighting realistic truths about its existence. The study acknowledges the existence of various strands that make up a complete African philosophy, including in areas where the West claims dominance or a monopoly over knowledge. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 892