Introduction

In the last few decades, African philosophy has emerged as an independent global intellectual tradition. African philosophy has decisively divided into specialist fields, thanks to the enormous commitment of African philosophers from all over the world. These specialist fields include metaphysics, ethics, logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, existentialism, and philosophy of development. In one form or the other, the various fields of African philosophy are undergirded by metaphysical assumptions and presuppositions derived from traditional African relational-holistic ontology.