Anthony Onyemachi Agwuele Ordre des livres

A. O. Agwuele, U. M. Nwankwo, O. Akinwumi (Editors) The book Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Overcoming The African Predicament interrogates the African situation with a view to understanding how it can be tackled. The African predicament, which comprises problems, processes and issues that engender desperate human conditions in Africa, includes sub-par performance at socio-economic, political, and technological levels that bring about the lack of development. Some of the critical questions that were raised to form the basis of a strategy for overcoming the African predicament Why is Africa an exception to the typical process of development observed in other continents? What is failing Africa? Nature? Nurture? World order? Multilingualism? Cultural diversity? The position of the authors of how to overcome the African Predicament is a plethora of multidisciplinary perspectives. How the problems were diagnosed differed from one discipline to the other and consequently the prescriptions too. The Predicament of African Women in the African Predicament Africa’s Institutional The Explorative Solutions The Advocated Solutions to the Trajectories of the African Technological Predicament Resolving the African Constructive and Deconstructive Interventions

The major problem of philosophy is that of its nature. Is it a universal discourse or a cultural phenomenon? This question, in Western philosophy, has been approached from two dimensions. The universalists and the pragmatists. Most analytical philosophers think that philosophy is universal. The pragmatists oppose them and posit that every philosophy has a cultural origin and is ethnocentric. In African Philosophy the debate about the nature of philosophy is between the universalists and the traditionalists. The universalists conceive philosophy as a theoretical discipline with universal character. The traditionalists on their own are made up of professional philosophers and as well as some other African intellectuals. The argument of the traditionalists is that African Philosophy can be extracted from African peoples’ morality, oral tradition, ethics, religion, folklore; in short from their collective world views or metaphysics. Within the context of this debate this book outlines the challenge of African Philosophy to the universality of Western philosophy. It is anchored on Rorty’s anti-universalist conception of philosophy which deconstructs the notion of «general theory of representation» and instead postulates «cultural genre» and «social practice» as modes of philosophical investigation.