African Cosmology and the Duality of Western Hegemony: The Search for an African Identity

Abstract

interests are in the areas of postcolonial African philosophy, philosophy of culture and ethics. This paper attempts to deconstruct a myriad of negative images that denigrate the African continent as dark and seeks to place into proper context distortions of the original African creative intellect twisted by Western hegemony. It further attempts to invalidate the stereotypes that were pervasively consecrated as historical truths in literature, philosophy, religion, and politics. 27