Kenyan philosopher who developed sage philosophy — the systematic philosophical thinking of traditional African sages — as a form of genuine philosophy, against both ethnophilosophy and universalism.
Sage philosophy: African traditional thinkers engage in critical, reflective philosophical inquiry comparable to Western philosophy; this is distinct from ethnophilosophy (collective folk wisdom) and must be recovered through interviews with sages.
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