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Pascah Mungwini, African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 213pp., $49.50 (hbk), ISBN 9781350196490.
Reviewed by Munamato Chemhuru, Great Zimbabwe University / University of Johannesburg
In African philosophy: Emancipation and practice, Pascah Mungwini offers some thoughtful insights into “the emancipative thrust in the practice of African philosophy” (2) against Africa’s background of social, political and economic injustices and oppression that were perpetrated by colonialism and neocolonialism. In this book, Mungwini shows serious concern with the intellectual marginalisation of Africa, which is not only evident through denial of epistemic agency but also hesitance by Africans to contribute to the production of traditionally and culturally rooted knowledge about Africa (see 72). Essentially this book is about how to confront epistemic injustice (see Fricker 2007 and Gatsheni-Ndlovu 2018) facing African thinkers in their quest for self-understanding within their different African traditional cultural contexts. Consider that the exclusion or denial of a people’s knowledge…
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