THE CATEGORIES OF CULTURE, HISTORY AND FREEDOM AS DRIVING FORCES IN THE EVOLUTION AND LEGITIMACY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

African Philosophy is an experience of life and human attitude that results of the integrity and uniqueness of culture and social interactions built on the event order and knowledge. It is presented as one of the instruments to make people aware of the identity and otherness of blacks, one of the ways of rescuing and recognizing the dignity of black culture and values, as well as, the means of denying their subordination and submission that result of the myth of supposed superiority of European People (Anthropology of Enlightenment assumption) that led to the racial, cultural and ontological discrimination of the black people, also presents itself as a condition for emancipation and contributes to freedom realization and the history of the black man, in which he isn’t an extra, but a protagonist (master and subject) of his history and his own destiny. The status and legitimacy of African Philosophy finds an echo within the authenticity of African paradigms and references, such as: black African ethics, black African aesthetics, African religiosity, African art, the concept of African family design, African tradition and wisdom (African beliefs and collective stories, moral tales, didactic legends, aphorisms, proverbs).