THE IMPLICATIONS OF WITTGENSTEIN’S LANGUAGE GAME THEORY ON POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Is there still any need to present African philosophy as a reaction to the rather ignorant assertions of western philosophers? Should African  philosophers  still  be  interested  in  some  maligning publications like those of Hegel's “Absolute Spirit” and Lucean Levi  Bruhl's  “Primitive  Mentality”  or  should  it  rather  be concerned with the existential problems of Africans like other philosophers  of  the  world?  If  African  philosophy  is  still considered inferior and irrational then we are making a case that there must be a condemnable mixing link in the score sheet of contributions that has obviously become blind to the outlandish Africa  perspectives  to  universal  concepts  and  philosophical problems. This claim becomes more palpable particularly after the masterpiece published by Wittgenstein and other legendary contributions of western philosophers against such obnoxious ideology.