Fabien Eboussi Boulaga Quotes

Fabien Eboussi Boulaga was a Cameroonian philosopher and former Jesuit and one of the sharpest critics of ethnophilosophy in the African philosophical tradition. His Christianity Without Fetishes, written in dialogue with the African experience of Christian missions, argued that Christianity must be received without becoming a fetish that disguises colonial domination, while his The Crisis of the Muntu diagnosed the modern African person as caught in a long colonial-postcolonial crisis of voice and self-understanding. The quotes below are attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, organized by topic.