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This paper offers some interesting insights on how Africans investigate and explain the activities of life. Nice bibliography of books to check out.
What is progress? “The self is the center of the world, animating it, and making it living and personal. Neither materiality nor spirituality are illusory. This is why the idea in western science of progress is troubling. Progress for the West, is not more knowledge, but more technique. How to do it faster, smoother, longer, louder and with greater exploitation becomes the pass-key to a techno-scientific future. Progress in an Afrocentric manner is related to the development of human personality because we are the source of life for the material and the spiritual; when we become more conscious of ourselves we shall be advanced and make progress.”
“An African scientist considers the whole of a problem and does not believe it possible to isolate and control variables in all situations. African science accepts paradoxes and works with them. A paramount consideration is the consequences of actions and a belief that humankind must coexist with nature and not attempt to conquer it. M.B. Ogunniyi (1988) compared the traditional world view with that of Western science. According to Ogunniyi ( p. 3-4), “The African concept of causality, chance and/or probability is based upon a different logic from that of science.”
