ABSTRACT
The literature (and with specific reference to African philosophy) has treated us with some interesting and juicy debate as to whether rationality is relative and contextual or not. If we suppose that it is the case that rationality is relative and contextual, then the question that I am interested in is whether logic, which is about rationality and which concerns reasoning and the principles or rules or processes used in good and sound thinking and reasoning is relative or context sensitive. In this chapter, I investigate this question and the issues around it focusing on how one might think of logic in the African philosophical tradition and worldview as different from logic in the Western philosophical tradition and worldview, as part of the larger aim or overarching framework of concepts from the Global South. Using examples from some African context and drawing on an African ontology or reality, I gesture toward the view that African logic is perhaps trivalent rather than bivalent.
