PROPOSED EXAM QUESTIONS (PHIL 807- AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY)

1. Discuss the idea of African Art and Aesthetics in relation to the five elements of art

which are used to describe the concept of aesthetics.

2. Evaluate the nature of morality in African philosophy

3. “I am because we are; and since we are, therefore, I am”. Discuss the philosophy

which gave birth to the above conception hinged on the view of Menkiti and Segun

Gbadegesun and its various implications.

4. Is there a history of African philosophy? Discuss

5. “A fly is trapped in a stopped bottle and no amount of shaking will wake the witch…

the fly was released, the sleeper awake”. Discuss Sophie Oluwole’s approach to the

reality of witchcraft in Africa.

6. Discuss the African concept of human right.