The position defended in this article is that African philosophy has the potential to grow into a philosophy that could eventually attain a significant place in the philosophy curriculum in Africa. This could be attained if those who are genuinely concerned with its present demotion to an inferior philosophy also actively participate in its development and dissemination. This is an admission that there might be something wrong with the way African philosophy has been received and treated in the academy even in present times. This is a difficult position whereby some indigenous people of Africa and others consider African philosophy to be somewhat inferior to Western philosophy. One might be tempted to think that since most of the people who end up studying and writing on African philosophy would have been, first and foremost, initiated into Western philosophy, the temptation might be to judge it using Western categories. The result might be a philosophy which is, by definition, a proxy of Western philosophy. Yet, as argued in the present article, authentic African philosophy ought to grow and flourish within the existential situations and terms of the indigenous people of Africa without appeal to external categories.

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非洲哲学与霸权哲学的挑战

本文捍卫的立场是，非洲哲学有潜力发展成为一种哲学，最终可以在非洲哲学课程中占据重要地位。如果真正关心降级哲学的人们也积极参与其发展和传播，就可以实现这一目标。这是承认即使在当今时代，非洲哲学在学院中的接受和对待方式也可能有问题。这是一个困难的局面，一些非洲土著人民和其他一些人认为非洲哲学在某种程度上不如西方哲学。人们可能会以为，既然大多数最终学习和写作非洲哲学的人本来就是最重要的，最初被引入西方哲学的诱惑可能是使用西方范畴来判断它。结果可能是一种哲学，根据定义，它是西方哲学的代理。但是，正如本文所述，真正的非洲哲学应该在非洲土著人民的生存状况和条件下发展和繁荣，而不必诉诸外部范畴。