ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I proffer what I term ‘Ontologised knowledge’ as an account of knowledge in African epistemology. I begin with a discussion of some assumptions that are key to how I develop the account of knowledge. Core among the assumptions are the senses in which I take Africa. From these senses, I identify and show how the universe-of-harmony belief is foundation to ‘Ontologised knowledge’, as it (universe-of-harmony belief) is expressive of beliefs about ‘what is’ (i.e. being). To conceptualise ‘Ontologised knowledge’, I elaborate on the universe-of-harmony belief by indicating the sort of ontological commitment that stems from it. By so doing, I show that Ontologised knowledge is realised in the tradition of social epistemology where, as an epistemic framework, it is the view that to truly cognise a thing, an agent ought to conceive such thing in terms of how it relates to an interdependent whole of a variety of entities – including imperceptible entities – that are all richly interconnected.
