Abstract

African philosophy has now reached a stage whereby its bonafide practitioners, that is, philosophers of sub-Saharan descent in good faith, can converse with each other on critical debates regarding the African place and the African space. In the past, there were no such critical conversations as most contributions on African philosophy centered on the issue of whether or not there was African philosophy, with those who denied it making frantic efforts to prescribe a philosophy for Africa. For quite a while, it would appear as if those who had denied the existence of African philosophy and embarked on the project of prescribing philosophy for the same, had won the battle until recently when some bonafide philosophy practitioners in Southern Africa led by Mogobe Ramose, Mabogo More and Fainos Mangena, and those from the conversational school in West Africa led by Jonathan O Chimakonam, decided to challenge this pernicious fallacy of exclusion and call for a true or genuine intercultural philosophy which is based on equality of cultures. This paper exposes this fallacy as well as shows the promise of conversational philosophy in promoting true or genuine intercultural philosophy.