Abstract

In philosophy, the decolonization of knowledge is marked by a number of “quarrels” related to its history, its geography, its location, its modality of production, its subjects and its objects. There are usually questions about the existence of non-Western philosophies, their place in the canons of the historiography of philosophy, and the curricula of philosophy in the West and elsewhere. There is also the question of the methodological and conceptual modalities according to which the philosophical discourses of the colonized people are constructed when it comes to being situated in relation to the philosophies of the dominant societies. African philosophy is a laboratory to illustrate the dead ends of any decolonization of knowledge and also to examine the conditions of possibility of such a decolonial approach.