ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to analyze the state of African philosophy as a tool of oppression, exclusion and discrimination against women. It argues that since Western philosophy was dominated by males, African philosophy has, in an uncanny way, followed this pattern by permitting or even encouraging men to dominate. Both in the traditional articulation of African philosophy and in the modernized, professionalized practice of this art in universities, women have been kept at the margins. The shared, dubious domination of philosophy by males is a continuation of the hierarchization of humanity on grounds of race and sex. The origins of African philosophy lay in the attempt to show the African as naturally suited to philosophy as the European. What African philosophy does is to show that the notion and process of wondering about one's surroundings and one's own place in those surroundings is an inescapable part of our constitution.
