The issue of a logic foundation for African thought connects well
with the question of method. Do we need new methods for African
philosophy and studies? Or, are the methods of Western thought
adequate for African intellectual space? These questions are not
some of the easiest to answer because they lead straight to the
question of whether or not a logic tradition from African
intellectual space is possible. Thus in charting the course of
future direction in African philosophy and studies, one must be
confronted with this question of logic. The author boldly takes up
this challenge and becomes the first to do so in a book by
introducing new concepts and formulating a new African
culture-inspired system of logic called Ezumezu which he believes
would ground new methods in African philosophy and studies. He
develops this system to rescue African philosophy and, by
extension, sundry fields in African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
from the spell of Plato and the hegemony of Aristotle. African
philosophers can now ground their discourses in Ezumezu logic which
will distinguish their philosophy as a tradition in its own right.
On the whole, the book engages with some of the lingering
controversies in the idea of (an) African logic before unveiling
Ezumezu as a philosophy of logic, methodology and formal system.
The book also provides fresh arguments and insights on the themes
of decolonisation and Africanisation for the intellectual
transformation of scholarship in Africa. It will appeal to
philosophers and logicians-undergraduates and post graduate
researchers-as well as those in various areas of African studies.
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