Shifting the ‘Goalpost” on African Ethics?

Abstract

The question of whether there is African philosophy or not has since become out-dated. However, the same question keeps emerging under varying guises. One of such emerging questions with the potency for an amplified attention has to do with the nature and viability of African ethics. Employing the examples of the two papers to be analysed in this paper, this article is set to respond to a common tendency among scholars of African cultural, social and political philosophy to make observations based on definite or localised aspects or schools of thought in Africa and employ their observations universally and without restraint on all of Africa.