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"Ideology is masked politics."

— Paulin J. Hountondji Combats pour le sens: Un itinéraire africain (1997)

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"Universality is possible only when the partners in dialogue are free from the need to dominate one another."

Combats pour le sens: Un itinéraire africain (1997)

"The real problem is not to talk about Africa but to talk among Africans."

"African philosophy will be fully itself only by taking up the historical challenge, assimilating and, if possible, going beyond the productive lessons of exogenous theoretical traditions."

African Studies Review (2024)

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