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"Democracy by consensus is by no means a contradiction in terms."

— Kwasi Wiredu

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"Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for a Non-Party Polity", Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy (2000). Kwasi Wiredu discussing consensus as a model of democratic governance in African traditional politics.

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"The careful study of our own traditional philosophies should be combined with insights from the intellectual resources of the modern world."

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"Philosophy must be both critical and self-critical."

"By conceptual decolonization I mean the divesting of African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from foreign traditions."

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