Chimezie Nnadozie

Dialectics of History of Politics in Africa Chimezie Nnadozie

Supposing that there is no limitation regarding place and people to whom the truth of the theorico-philosophical base of politics, of society and of man as a socio-political animal must be applied, it is supposed that the African gets a tacit share of the human ingenuity for the said theorico-philosophical base of politics. In my view, authors who try to affirm a context of African Political Doctrine deriving from a stereotype African culture, neither have true ratiocination nor valid empirical phenomena guiding their philosophy. Often, the bid to create common grounds for an African culture brings to violating the rules guiding disciplinary studies. This text is written with the intention of attempting to clear the ambiguity arising from a supposed African political doctrine which derives from African culture. It tries to point out that politics in Africa has no historicity of context other than the tacit share it got from human ingenuity and of course, political doctrines have no historicity of context outside the theorico-philosophical bravura of some great philosophers like Plato and Aristotle