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"African philosophy is not a search for an exotic identity but a critical engagement with the realities of African life."

— D. A. Masolo

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"Culture is never static; it is continually recreated through human action."

"Philosophy flourishes where people are willing to question inherited assumptions."

"Identity is not something inherited once and for all; it is continually negotiated."

"Tradition survives only because each generation reinterprets it."

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I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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