The modern works on African philosophy have not been integrated and
fully connected to Africa's antiquity in order to provide a
foundational unity for further intellectual refinement. The
philosophical dimensions of humanism, Nkrumah's concept of
categorial conversion, African concepts of duality, polarity,
unity, continual creation and democratic ideals must be shown their
African-centered origins. In considering African philosophy, there
arise conceptual and logical gaps that require the development of
fundamental cognitive unity from the available data with judicious
interpretation and restructuring in order to define the parameters
of African philosophical unity that will allow these gaps to be
closed for intellectual continuity. This monograph is devoted to
the establishment of the foundations for the development of
Africa's intellectual continuity and cognitive unity from antiquity
to the present. Its main premise is that there is African
philosophy with its own method of reasoning, analysis and
synthesis. The monograph initiates self-contained philosophical
foundations for African intellectual unity that is required to
support African cultural unity, African personality, African
essence and humanism needed for the creation of Greater Africa that
is implied by African Union. These philosophical foundations, it is
argued, formed the thinking system for Africa's social construct,
law, economics, politics and governance of empires, kingdoms and
social units that have come to pass. These philosophical
foundations constitute the thinking system that must guide current
and future Africa's socioeconomic dynamics. The monograph discusses
also Africa's contributions to the global intellectual heritage by
showing the relationships among foundations of African
philosophical tradition and other philosophical systems that lead
to rediviva Africana. It presents the principles of cognitive unity
and continuity on the held position that without clearly developed
Africa's philosophical foundations from its antiquity providing
intellectual unity and cognitive continuity complete emancipation
of Africa will be a mere mimicking of intellectual faults of other
nations and philosophical systems. The research by African scholars
and others on specific philosophical thoughts from different areas
of Africa is useful materials that must be integrated into
cognitive unity by accepting those that fit and rejecting those
that do not fit by a defined logical process. Mindful of this, a
case is thus made in this monograph for African cognitive unity and
supporting reasoning methods. The system of ideas and perceptive
interpretations of relevant data is, here, referred to as
Africentricity, and its philosophical foundations that project
thought as polyrhythmicity while the study of logic of reasoning
about methodological and epistemic problems of polyrhythmicity and
Africentricity is referred to as polyrhythmics. On practical level
these philosophical foundations are shown to support the conceptual
basis of Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa). The
monograph would be of interest to philosophers in general,
professionals, researchers and students engaged in African
philosophy, African studies, Black studies, socio-political
philosophy and those interested in knowing the thinking system on
the basis of which African essence arises and African social
formations were constructed and governed from antiquity.
_______________________ Kofi Kissi Dompere is a professor of
economics at Howard University, USA. He has authored a number of
scientific and scholarly works in economics, philosophy and
decision theory. He is the producer and host of a radio program
"African Rhythms and Extensions" on WPFW 89.3fm in Washington D.C.,
USA.
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