ABSTRACT
This chapter refers the dominant tendency of the Western Philosophy and it shows, how that tendency, when joined with other factors, structures the context and terms of debates regarding 'Philosophy' in Africa. The source of the stench is the rotting corpse of a particular complex, multi-faceted, projected self-image: that of the Greco-Roman/European 'rational man'. The heavily weighted logocentrism of the 'queen' of ventures of knowing that constitutes mainstream Western Philosophy, so insightfully described and critiqued by Rorty, is only a part of the problem, though a significant part. The most frequent rationalization offered was that European encroachments in Africa brought 'progress', in the form of the spread of Christianity and 'rational' civilization, which would lead to the improvement of individual and social existence. The standards for 'true Philosophy' were those operative in the discourses of the mainstream European philosophy.
