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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY. UNIT 1: DEFINING AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY. 1.1) INTRODUCTION AND LEARNIN OUTCOME. There are different kind of philosophies in the world namely:  African  Arabic  Chinese  Indian  Western and more What makes philosophy African, among other things, is the African experience from which African philosophy proceeds. What is African philosophy? Based on linguistic considerations, the term African philosophy suggest that African philosophy is, at the same time, basically philosophical and typically African. 1.2) THE CONTROVERSY OF THE TERM AFRICAN The linguistic, historical and philosophical meaning of the term, Africa and African in its adjectival form is in no means beyond dispute. The nature and significance of the dispute are not simple matters of academic curiosity which solidifies into academism that we often find in 1 academic spheres. On the contrary, the nature and significance of the dispute ultimately pertains to questions of natural and historical justice. For this reason the term Africa must be problematized. The indigenous people of the continent may therefore, not take it for granted whenever others refer to them as Africans, or when they refer to themselves as such. The reasonableness of accepting the geographical meaning is questionable on two grounds:  The first point is natural history. Here we learn all the continents of our planet Earth were once a single, compact, undivided whole, called Pangea. According to geologists, our planet with