Article ID: CBB784599435

An Essay on Naturalized Epistemology of African Indigenous Knowledge (2016)

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The whole culture of the Black man, his religion, his cosmology, his technology, and so on possesses scientific bases. However, the epistemological bases of his science differ from those of modern Western thought. And, this difference prevents those who study Black African culture on the basis of Western epistemology to discover its scientific scope. In this article, the author develops the naturalized epistemology of the African traditional science. This epistemology teaches us that the African starts from the notion of God, to whom all reality is attributed; the Black African science is mainly a deductive science in which knowledge is of a revelatory nature. Contrary to the Western epistemology, the focus of the epistemology of the African science is the moral and spiritual conformity of the initiate to the religious norms and the praxis of the knowledge he produces. Far from being a bunch of superstitious beliefs, the African traditional religion, which is the basis of African lore, is demonstrated today, thanks to the apologetic tools developed by the Institut des Sciences Animiques, to be a scientific knowledge whose cosmology leads to the holistic “theory of everything.” This proves the natural convergence between African traditional lore and Newtonian physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Orchiston, Wayne
Hamacher, Duane W.
Cartwright, Brad J.
Robby Zidny
Rose Ann B. Bautista
Mejuto, Javier
Concepts
Traditional knowledge
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Science and culture
Colonialism
Cosmology
Epistemology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
20th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Africa
Americas
North America
Australia
Torres Strait
Kilimanjaro, Mount
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