The issue of a logic foundation for African thought connects well with
the question of method. Do we need new methods for African philosophy
and studies? Or, are the methods of Western thought adequate for African
intellectual space? These questions are not some of the easiest to
answer because they lead straight to the question of whether or not a
logic tradition from African intellectual space is possible. Thus in
charting the course of future direction in African philosophy and
studies, one must be confronted with this question of logic. The author
boldly takes up this challenge and becomes the first to do so in a book
by introducing new concepts and formulating a new African
culture-inspired system of logic called Ezumezu which he believes would
ground new methods in African philosophy and studies. He develops this
system to rescue African philosophy and, by extension, sundry fields in
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from the spell of Plato and the
hegemony of Aristotle. African philosophers can now ground their
discourses in Ezumezu logic which will distinguish their philosophy as a
tradition in its own right. On the whole, the book engages with some of
the lingering controversies in the idea of (an) African logic before
unveiling Ezumezu as a philosophy of logic, methodology and formal
system. The book also provides fresh arguments and insights on the
themes of decolonisation and Africanisation for the intellectual
transformation of scholarship in Africa. It will appeal to philosophers
and logicians-undergraduates and post graduate researchers-as well as
those in various areas of African studies.
