Claude E. Ake, radical African political philosopher of the first four decades of the postcolonial era, stands out as a progressive social force whose writings

Claude Ake's study is primarily concerned with what he terms 'the most perinicious form of imperialism' namely scientific knowledge. Ake analyses how Western so

African philosophy has for long been rejected on the basis that it is not known, or has not been written down. Behind this view is the idealist presumption that

Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans,