DECOLONIZING AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
By Decolonization it means divesting African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from our colonial past. The crucial word in this formulation is "undue". Obviously it would not be rational to try to reject everything of a colonial Ancestry. Conceivably, a thought or a mode of inquiry spearheaded by our colonizers may be valid or in some way beneficial to humankind. I think that it is a colonial type of mentality that regards African philosophy as something that should be kept apart from the mainstream of philosophical thinking. Compare how things stand or might stand in, say the study of British philosophy. Surely it would be more than mildly idiocy berate for a British teacher of philosophy in a British university to propose in his teaching of metaphysics. In fact there may be no such course in the given British university for the good reason that there may be no need for it. It would be a great day for African insights have become fully integrated