The Major Trends in the Development of African Philosophy in the Contemporary World

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

African philosophy; Africa idea; African identity; negritude; Pan-Africanism; ethnophilosophy

Abstract

This article focuses on African philosophy issues, ideas and the major trends of its development in the contemporary world. It’s emphasized that one of the main trends in the development of African philosophy in the contemporary world is the search for African identity, ideas of African renaissance. The development of African philosophy in the early and mid-twentieth century had the immense influence of the anti-colonial movement, which resulted in rapid development tie socio-political movements. The article discusses the most influential of them, such as negritude, Pan-Africanism, African socialism, etc.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ejike Sam-Festus Chukwujekwu
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