Post-colonial African philosophy meant returning to pre-colonial African thinking and values

Evidence

To post-colonial African philosophers then, African philosophy is nothing more than a return to Africa proper, which means a return to traditional African thinking, values, attitudes and practices that existed before Africans came in contact with Europeans. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 119

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines post-colonial African philosophy as expressly a project of return to pre-contact tradition.
• XREF: connects to: African past philosophy transmitted as culture formed revolutionary consciousness — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1429; Nyerere saw African philosophy as recovering a pre-colonial socialist attitude — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 119; Ethnophilosophy erred by comparing traditional African thought with modern Western philosophy across mismatched epochs — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: African past philosophy transmitted as culture formed revolutionary consciousness — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1429; Nyerere saw African philosophy as recovering a pre-colonial socialist attitude — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 119; Ethnophilosophy erred by comparing traditional African thought with modern Western philosophy across mismatched epochs — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440

Broader Connections

• Nyerere saw African philosophy as recovering a pre-colonial socialist attitude #exemplifies (0.92) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 119
• Ethnophilosophy erred by comparing traditional African thought with modern Western philosophy across mismatched epochs #complicates (0.74) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440