African Philosophy

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Philosophy began in Africa, with Ancient Egyptian concepts of justice and soul, and relations between humans and gods. Post-colonial African philosophers deal with reason and culture, time and destiny, witchcraft and aesthetics, religion and modernism, ethics and community, politics and the philosophy of history. Fanon?s great work, The Wretched of the Earth, engages with the struggle for independence of African nations. African thought influences many African-American philosophies. Very current ideas include ?Afropessimism?, ?Necropolitics? and ?Afrofuturism?.