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Download or read book Modern philosophy. The African philosophy of Ntu written by Ednah M Peter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy Beyond Occidental Tradition, University of Botswana (University of Botswana), course: Modern Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The African philosophy of Ntu existed a long time ago, and it brought about solidarity and oneness in African society.The importance of this paper therefore is to discuss the African Philosophy of Ntu. The paper will start by defining the key concepts, then differentiating African philosophy from Western philosophy. The paper will go further into discussing the basic features that make up the Ntu philosophy and also, towards the end of the paper, the African philosophy will be criticised. At last a conclusion will be drawn up, summing all the main points of the paper.