Polyrhythmicty: Foundations of African Philosophy

This book, therefore, is an attempt to initiate a self-contained philosophical foundation for African intellectual unity that is required to support African cultural unity, African personality, humanism and the creation of Greater Africa, a super state, without which the known and unknown African traditional greatness will lie dormant in ancient monuments. Furthermore the African cognitive contributions to the global intellectual heritage will lie hidden in other cognitive systems that have appropriated the Africa's intellectual and conceptual foundations. Without Africa's philosophical foundation, intellectual unity and cognitive continuity, the complete emancipation of Africa will be a mere fiction where social development will also be a mere mimicking of intellectual faults of other nations. A case is made in this book for African cognitive unity or unity of reasoning methods through the development of a logical system of interrelated ideas that are African-centered. This system of ideas and perceptive interpretations is referred to as Africentricity and its philosophical foundation that projects African thought as polyrhythmicity. We shall reserve the term polyrhythmics to refer to the study of methodological and epistemic problems of polyrhythmicity and Africentricity.