ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 deploys a global South perspective to explore the relationship between thinking and philosophy. This chapter provides a crucial way to deal with the challenge of the global epistemological hegemony highlighted in chapter 5. It involves a deep philosophical attempt at delineating within the general context of “thinking,” a socially relevant philosophizing that has the capacity to engage plurality and disunity in Nigeria as a place-of-philosophy. Since thinking itself is motivated by contexts and circumstances, how then can thinking be instantiated into a philosophical concern with Nigeria as a “place” of philosophy? Afolayan, in this chapter, proffers arguments on how Nigerian philosophers can re-appropriate thinking as a genuine standpoint of emancipation in Nigeria.
