/lit/ - Literature

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Ignore the usual armchair anthropologist /pol/sters OP. There have been black philosophers from sub-saharan Africa. They might not necessarily be as well-known, there might not be as many of them, they might not be as revolutionary in their thought or have their work readily in print but they do exist. I won't say that there are loads or that there has ever been a major philosophical culture below the Sahel belt but if you're interested:

Pre Modern:
>Zara Yacob
>Anton Wilhelm Amo
>Usman dan Fodio
>Nana Asma’u

Modern:
>Kwasi Wiredu
>Henry Odera Oruka
>Cheikh Anta Diop
>John Mbiti
>Achille Mbembe
>Kwame Anthony Appiah
>Independence leaders like Leopold Senghor, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyere, Steve Biko and Thomas Sankara

There are also Africana diaspora philosophers like Franz Fanon and Aime Cesaire etc., and the usual literary figures like Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong’o etc. but your mileage may vary as to how much you consider them African philosophers.

Zara Yacob, in the Hatata:

>All men are equal in the presence of God; and all are intelligent, since they are his creatures; he did not assign one people for life, another for death, one for mercy, another for judgment. Our reason teaches us that this sort of discrimination cannot exist.
>Who is it that provided me with an ear to hear, who created me as a rational being and how have I come into this world? Where do I come from? Had I lived before the creator of the world, I would have known the beginning of my life and of the consciousness of myself. Who created me?
>Indeed each one says: ‘My faith is right, and those who believe in another faith believe in falsehood, and are the enemies of God.’ … As my own faith appears true to me, so does another one find his own faith true; but truth is one.