Philosophy is really a manufacturing from raw materials. It is a forging out of thought from the materials of culture.

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Okere was explaining his hermeneutical conception of African philosophy. He regarded culture as the source material from which philosophical reflection can develop, rather than treating cultural beliefs themselves as already constituting philosophy.

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