African studies through language-based techniques

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dc.contributor.author Osuagwu, Ndubuisi
dc.contributor.author Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-22T07:17:48Z
dc.date.available 2018-06-22T07:17:48Z
dc.date.issued 2018-01
dc.description.abstract In this article, we argue that language-based techniques have the capacity to generate original ideas and thus account for progress in any discipline. We claim that language-based techniques used by some African scholars such as hermeneutics (critical interpretation of cultural corpus) and related ones such as transliteration (adaptation of alien intellectual legacy) are creatively inadequate to inspire progress because they do not lead to the creation of new concepts and original ideas in African thought. We claim also that the technique of intellectual decolonisation with its foremost expression in Kwasi Wiredu’s ‘conceptual decolonisation’ and Kwesi Tsri’s ‘conceptual liberation’, are two recent language-based strategies aimed at overcoming the creative problem inherent in the techniques of hermeneutics and transliteration. We argue that these two techniques are equally inadequate because they are tantamount to what can be called ‘conceptual manipulation’, which is not a creative strategy for progress in African thought. The goal of this paper therefore is to expose the creative weaknesses in these techniques in order to show that there is a dearth of creative language-based techniques in African studies and make a call for the formulation of one. en_ZA
dc.description.department Philosophy en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2018 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ft en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Osuagwu, N & Chimakonam, JO 2018, 'African studies through language-based techniques', Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 101-124. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 2408-5987
dc.identifier.issn 10.4314/ft.v7i1.5
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65214
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Calabar School of Philosophy en_ZA
dc.rights © Publisher: Calabar School of Philosophy en_ZA
dc.subject African philosophy en_ZA
dc.subject Hermeneutics en_ZA
dc.subject Transliteration en_ZA
dc.subject Conceptual manipulation en_ZA
dc.subject Conceptual decolonisation en_ZA
dc.subject Conceptual liberation en_ZA
dc.title African studies through language-based techniques en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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