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The third of the analytical chapters within this book, Chap. 6, moves the timeline forward to focus on the writings of contemporary African philosophers, their writings coming from a range of philosophical and ideological positions. In engaging with these contemporary scholars the chapter asks not whether they work from a Kantian perspective, but rather whether underpinning the work of a diverse range of scholars it is possible to recognise a foundational belief in internal and external self-law giving. To engage with these questions the chapter engages with, amongst others, the work of Kwame Gyekye, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ngũgı Wa Thiong’o and Achille Mbembe.
Africa actually enriches Europe: but Africa is made to believe that it needs Europe to rescue it from poverty. (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, 1986, p. 28)
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Bird, G.K. (2019). Postcolonial Philosophers. In: Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_6
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