Logic and African Philosophy

“Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought” is an edited work by Jonathan Chimakonam who is affiliated to the Philosophy Department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The book has four parts with a total of sixteen published and (some) revised essays that had appeared between i958 and 2020. Essentially, each of the parts is tied to a thematic contention in the history of thought and logic in the African place but also discloses a historical evolution from mere lip service and doubt to the emergence of an alternative three-valued logic system that is formal, methodological, philosophical, yet able to represent the African reality better than the prevalent bivalent logic system, dominant in the Western tradition of philosophy. [...]

[Extract from book reviewing on the journal 'History and Philosophy of Logic', 2022, Vol.43 (3), p.303-305. Reviewer: E. Ofuasia Lagos State University, Nigeria). https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2021.1988431 ]