Pope John Paul II Journal of Philosophy

Africa has been an unfortunate continent. Unlike other continents that were discovered and explored, the exploration of continental African nations nevertheless turned into exploitation: from slavery to colonization unto neo-colonization through capital flight-open market and indebtedness to either Europe and or one of the Asian dragons. However, the colonization that was meant to develop African nation states left them truncated leading to many challenges like African predicaments amidst geopolitics of her underdevelopment. A philosophy of colonization, a form of coloniality, justified the imperial maritime invasion and exploitation of continental Africa. Hence, the need for a more humane philosophy and or humanistic discipline, and that is the thrust of an African Philosophy of Decolonization in stricto sensu. One may equally refer to it as African philosophy of Decoloniality. As an applied critical enterprise, it is the statutory deAfricanization of Europeanized Africa as well as the cloned Africa while pruning the overly dependent African nations from their colonial branches; emancipating them from imperial servitude and Bob Nestor Marley’s mental slavery. The researcher with firm analysis proposes a functional and complementary African Philosophy of Decolonization that will in its complementarity acknowledge the magisterial and papal legacies of decolonization recently rooted in Hands-off Africa.

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