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The African has generally not been given his right place in the many areas of human civilization. The African is denied a will, freedom, knowledge, rational powers, etc. Yet, man is "by nature a thinking being endowed by nature itself with this unique faculty which he makes use of in his everyday experience, in organizing and interpreting the experience." African philosophy is a rational product of the African's intellectual, deliberate or conscious activity with all the qualities that any philosophical discipline has in itself. Acknowledged African scholars, inspite of the disagreement...

Historically, however, the main purpose of education, whether formal or informal, has been to produce people who will be useful members of society. The type and level of education keep changing continuously with the needs of society. Hence, in the olden days when communities were small and largely rural and self-sufficient, the system of education, with few exceptions, was informal and non-illiterate. It is clear, therefore, that when we talk about the history of education we usually mean the evolution of the philosophies and institutions involved in the formal transmission of culture in...

African metaphysics briefly is a study of the African world and world-view. As a study, it takes a deep and wide look into the nature of ultimate reality for Africans. It looks into the nature of forces or beings in the African Universe, the relationship between the seen and the unseen. African metaphysics is the key to the understanding and interpretation of life, existence, being, in fact reality as a whole as observed in the African Universe. The African sees his universe as essentially a religious one; a unified whole of visible and invisible and this organic whole of the visible world...

Beauty, the beautiful, the Good, Truth and Justice, humanity crave for them. The West and Africa each has its right. These values, no race can claim superiority because they are from the Almighty Creator of everything in the Universe. The booklet, African Aesthetics: An Introduction has tried to introduce these gifts as mentioned above in her own right and manner. There is a brief view of the West on the abstract consideration of their views, the theories of art/beauty. In these theories, express the West conceptions on these issues as their hearts conceive art and beauty. Everyone has the...

"A teacher can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its flame." Hence a teacher needs to continually develop intellectually if he is going to be able to develop the intellectual development of his pupils. It will improve the quality of his efforts, and his role is likely to be enhanced. Thus the book introduction to philosophy of education is a qualitative efforts on the teacher's activities. Since philosophy appears to be very pillar on which a country's educational practice is built, a sound knowledge of philosophy of education is a matter of compulsion for both practicing...