Towards an indigenous (African) order of knowledge

Abstract

The problem a philosopher/scholar might face writing on an area of study like the African theory of knowledge has to do with a  conceptual clarification of the terms in use as well as correcting some perceived misconceptions, which due to the accidence of history,  have tended to be accepted as the norm or a given. So, when the Africa's indigenous theory of knowledge is mentioned, some scholars  are wont to ask; what theory? And what knowledge? Do Africans have a systematised body of knowledge? Part of our concerns in this  essay is to expose the pitfalls in the disguised rejection of African theory of knowledge (epistemology) and its ideological underpinnings  in order to reconstruct the ideas with a view to showing the parity of epistemological concepts between African and Euro-western.