ABSTRACT
This chapter theorizes on conflict and conflict resolution in African philosophy. The chapter establishes that there are some ideas, values, and beliefs in traditional African cultural systems that, when systematically and thoroughly applied and promoted in contemporary Africa, can effectively aid conflict resolution in a uniquely African context. The focus of this chapter is to explore the relevance of African philosophy toward conflict resolution in Africa. It establishes the indispensable roles of Africa philosophy and African philosophers in conflict resolution in twenty-first century Africa. The purpose of this chapter neither to undertake an elaborate discussion on the plethora of conceptions on the meanings and history of African philosophy, nor to revisit the various arguments on its existence or otherwise. This chapter attemptes to display this notion by discussing the philosophical relevance of some selected traditional African cultural values, such as truth, the use of proverbs, the belief in living-dead, and communalism, toward conflict resolution in Africa.
