Recovering an African philosophy that ignores colonial alienation serves the colonizer.

Evidence

Tempels’s Ethno-philosophy has been criticized severely by some scholars who equate it to a philosophy of imperialism or characterize it as promoting epistemological slavery. Boulaga further argues that any philosophy that assumes and testifies to the singularity of the African situation cannot be praxis of liberation. Instead, he argues for the establishment of a rigorous African philosophical practice, free from rationality, but manifesting itself as another version of real violence or war against colonial imperialism. He argues further that any attempts to recover an African philosophy that lose sight of the alienation suffered by Africans during slavery and colonialism is reductionist in nature and, therefore, may only represent the objectives of the colonizer rather than of the oppressed. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 899

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Boulaga’s core objection to ethnophilosophy: that it remains a Western philosophia perennis the Muntu must conform to by renouncing memory and tradition.