Is Africana Philosophy a Good Idea?

The name of Augustine returns us to the issue of thinkers in North Africa who were part of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds of late antiquity. Would it make sense to see Augustine as part of an African tradition of thought? We are not going to take a position on this question, but we are going to point out someone who has. In an intriguing essay entitled African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era, Kenyan philosopher D.A. Masolo discusses Augustine and also Tertullian.