Alexis Kagame Quotes on Truth
Alexis Kagame was a Rwandan Catholic priest, philosopher, historian, and linguist and one of the principal pioneers of academic African philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Alexis Kagame on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alexis Kagame:
“Bantu thought distinguishes four categories: the human, the thing, the place-and-time, the modal.”
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Attributed to Alexis Kagame:
“Language preserves the philosophy of a people across centuries.”
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Attributed to Alexis Kagame:
“African philosophy can be reconstructed from the structure of Bantu languages.”
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Attributed to Alexis Kagame:
“We are not philosophical Europeans; we are philosophical Africans.”