A Theological Perspective on the Future of Black Philosophy

Abstract

: This paper contends that the future of Black philosophy should be grasped from the theological perspective which entails catching the conditions that prevailed in the Egyptian religious epistemic paradigm before the rise of speculative philosophy among the Grecian elite. The reason given for this conviction is that according to the prospective of Cheikh Anta Diop and the concordant predictions of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian mages as well Kôngo prophets, we are at the wake of an epistemic shift which will bring back the rise of the preponderance of the African spiritually based mode of thinking over the Western materialistic trend. It appears from this perspective that the reemergence of African traditional religion as an exact science, i.e., a coherent set of deductive knowledge, will force Black philosophy back to a low-key position where it will be recognized for what it epistemologically really is: a Western paradigm dealing with African issues.