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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.

— Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

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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.

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