The previous chapter has succeeded, among many others, to indicate the limitations of classical logic as it serves as one of the key culprits in the articulation and codification of African metaphysics in ways that it is neither distorted nor misrepresented. This means that an alternative system of logic is pertinent and as this chapter will evince, the journey to such, in the history of African philosophy, was not so simple. The current chapter revisits the importance of ethno-philosophy as the basis of authentic African philosophy before identifying how previous efforts of European philosophers have attempted to diminish the capacity for logical reasoning among Africans. Prompted by this bias, some African logicians not only argued that Africans are logical but disclosed that African reasoning patterns do not follow the absolute and universal classical logic which has only helped in distorting African thought systems. The chapter therefore provides a brief history of how Ezumezu, an Afro-inspired trivalent system of logic by Jonathan Chimakonam arrived in 2019. Given the limitations noticeable in the logic, Emmanuel Ofuasia makes further revisions to strengthen the scope and application of the system in what he calls neo-Ezumezu. Regardless of the slight differences between the original version from Chimakonam and Ofuasia’s revision, what is of utmost concern is that an alternative system of logic that can account for African metaphysics which is mediated by force and becoming has arrived and it commands more patronage and application than what currently holds.

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The Quest for an Alternative Logic System for Force and Becoming

  • Emmanuel Ofuasia

摘要

The previous chapter has succeeded, among many others, to indicate the limitations of classical logic as it serves as one of the key culprits in the articulation and codification of African metaphysics in ways that it is neither distorted nor misrepresented. This means that an alternative system of logic is pertinent and as this chapter will evince, the journey to such, in the history of African philosophy, was not so simple. The current chapter revisits the importance of ethno-philosophy as the basis of authentic African philosophy before identifying how previous efforts of European philosophers have attempted to diminish the capacity for logical reasoning among Africans. Prompted by this bias, some African logicians not only argued that Africans are logical but disclosed that African reasoning patterns do not follow the absolute and universal classical logic which has only helped in distorting African thought systems. The chapter therefore provides a brief history of how Ezumezu, an Afro-inspired trivalent system of logic by Jonathan Chimakonam arrived in 2019. Given the limitations noticeable in the logic, Emmanuel Ofuasia makes further revisions to strengthen the scope and application of the system in what he calls neo-Ezumezu. Regardless of the slight differences between the original version from Chimakonam and Ofuasia’s revision, what is of utmost concern is that an alternative system of logic that can account for African metaphysics which is mediated by force and becoming has arrived and it commands more patronage and application than what currently holds.