Fabien Eboussi Boulaga Quotes on Freedom
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga was a Cameroonian philosopher and former Jesuit and one of the sharpest critics of ethnophilosophy in the African philosophical tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga:
“African philosophy must be a reasoned response to African crises, not a museum of customs.”
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Attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga:
“Christianity in Africa must be received without becoming a fetish.”
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Attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga:
“The crisis of the Muntu is the crisis of the African person seeking voice.”
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Attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga:
“True philosophy contests as much as it constructs.”
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Attributed to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga:
“The colonial mind is healed only by self-critical thought.”