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NEOLOGICAL POSITIVISTS AND THE QUESTION OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

Introduction

Intellectual discussion within the liberal arts in Africa during the nationalists struggle for independence and thereafter have centred on the need for ‘authentic African intellectual disposition’. Of course, this seems understandable as a continent which has passed through the inglorious slave era and the traumatic colonial period with all its mental deprivation is not expected to have its sensibility unaffected. Philosophy has not been spared the need to reorientate its bearing to the new social temperament. Two schools, at least, in recent times, have canvassed for support in this direction.