Published 2021-12-01
“…Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the
philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and
logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. …”
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