Philosophie Africaine

Mbiti définit la philosophie africaine comme « la compréhension, attitude d'esprit, logique et perception derrière la manière dans laquelle les peuples africains pensent, agissent ou parlent de différentes manières des situations de la vie »

African writers and philosophers attempt to Africanise knowledge and thought. To do so, as Mudimbe (1988) points out in The Invention of Africa, “they have to first think about the form, the content, and the style of „Africanising‟ knowledge” and how to integrate “traditional systems of thought and their possible relation to the normative genre of knowledge” (x). After all, these beliefs help us to understand something about the real Africa.