Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze Quotes
1963–2007 Nigeria
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze 18 January 1963 – 31 December 2007) was a Nigerian philosopher. Eze was a specialist in postcolonial philosophy.
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Philosophy and politics, in a mix, in my view, tend to mutually destroy each other.
Philosophical works that relate in one way or another to Africa may be denominated "African" through this relation.
Philosophers become who they are because they are born or educated into, and provoked by, locatable societies and intellectual traditions.
I personally would like the category "African philosophy" to include the works of (our) modern African thinkers.
I believe we may now have some opportunity to make greater contributions to philosophy.
Slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism were often the vehicles driving most of the encounters.
I cannot think of a contemporary philosopher in Africa or, elsewhere, philosopher of African origin whose work has not been marked, for good and ill, by Africa's encounters with European modernity.
Developed traditions of African philosophy could enrich both Africans and Europeans.
The one abiding interest I can think of ... might be a sense of shared historical moments.
There certainly are distinctive traditions of philosophical reflection in Africa, both written and non-written.
I believe that Hountondji, notoriously in ill-tempered rhetoric, and Wiredu were objecting to that sort of Tempelsian ethnographic projects.
The projects looked misguided, and perhaps offensive, because they seem to have been predicated upon either a misunderstanding of philosophy, or an imposition upon Africa an expectation to be primitive and "natural", and quite often both.