This philosophical paper enters the contested arena of the African Philosophy debate in which scholars have been engaging each other from the late 1950s to this date. African Philosophy, as a movement, attempts to assert and affirm the identity and dignity of Africans, who felt insulted, despised, and trodden by western ideologies and worldviews. Practitioners in African philosophy in contemporary times have developed fundamental interest in, often much to their frustration, the existence and nature of an African philosophy. On the other hand, non-Africans (including Africans of western persuasion) have often raised questions about African philosophy’s existence resulting in an embedded dismissal of Africa and African thought systems. This paper surveys and synthesises the murky conversations on the nature and character of African Philosophy in an effort to expose some of the areas of consensus and disharmony.

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非洲哲学对话中的共识还是不和谐？

这份哲学论文进入了非洲哲学辩论的有争议的舞台，从1950年代末至今，学者们一直在互相参与。作为一种运动，非洲哲学试图维护和肯定非洲人的身份和尊严，他们感到被西方意识形态和世界观所侮辱，鄙视和践踏。当代非洲哲学界的从业者已经对非洲哲学的存在和本质产生了根本的兴趣，这常常使他们感到沮丧。另一方面，非非洲人（包括西方说服的非洲人）经常对非洲哲学的存在提出疑问，导致对非洲和非洲思想体系的内在排斥。