AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
5min chapter
Pascah Mungwini, "African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
The Analytical Model of African Philosophy
There is an analytical model that the colonizers or the first colonians who arrived in Africa including missionaries were using. They would identify African culture and then try by all means to show that there is something wrong with it. So if you look at religion for example, everyone has an idea of existence but Africans and their beliefs, their ideas are all good. Those two levels, they did very well but what they then in my opinion did not do well was to recommend at the level of recommending what we should do. It's when they recommended that we should develop a philosophy that conforms in terms of methods and outlook to what already exists in the dominant tradition of philosophy. That's how I was
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode