A Critical Assessment Of J.s Mbiti’s African’s Conception Of Time

A Critical Assessment Of J.s Mbiti’s African’s Conception Of Time

Abstract

Mbiti contended that Africans perceive time composition of events which must be lived through. He contended further, that bone can from similar ontology, arrive at the understanding of African philosophical generalities.

This essay tried a critical examination of Mbiti’s view on Africans’ generality of time, and to show that Mbiti’s Africans’ generality of time, isn’t crucial to the understanding of African philosophical generalities.

The system employed was an in depth analysis of conception of time in African societies and philosophicalargumentation.Mbiti’sAfrican persuasions and Philosophy,Masolo’sAfrican Philosophy in Search for Identity,Ayoade’sTime in Yoruba allowed ,Oke’sFrom an Ontology to an Epistemology, andGyekye’sAn Essay on African Philosophical Allowed The Akan Conception Scheme, were studied and anatomized.

The results of this essay included the following first, that Mbiti’s claim that Africans warrant the idea of an extended future is false, that there colorful time generality on the mainland of Africa, and that the understanding of Mbiti’s African generality of time didn’t inescapably mean an understanding of African philosophical generalities.

This essay concluded that there’s the conception of an extended future in Africa and Mbiti shouldn’t have grounded his conclusion from his understanding of the Kikamba culture only, which inaptly led him to the falseness of hasty conception with regard to the generalizations of time in Africa.