Western philosophers’ racial views of Africa stem from willfully limited knowledge

Evidence

However, this definition limits a complete understanding of philosophy in the sense that the term “a certain knowledge” is not “a complete knowledge”, and one can conclude that the reason why Kant’s understanding of Africans is positioned and tainted by racial assumptions is that Western scholars did not allow themselves to get a deeper and clearer understanding of Africa; rather, they limited their focus to a “certain” limited knowledge that they assumed about Africa. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 917

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader decolonial critique of epistemic violence in Western philosophy of Africa.