Marcien Towa Quotes on Freedom
Marcien Towa was a Cameroonian philosopher and one of the sharpest African critics of ethnophilosophy in the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Marcien Towa on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Marcien Towa:
“Authentic African philosophy must be a critical labor, not a celebration of the past.”
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Attributed to Marcien Towa:
“To philosophize is to question, not to embalm.”
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Attributed to Marcien Towa:
“Liberation requires the courage to think against one's own traditions where they harm.”
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Attributed to Marcien Towa:
“African modernity must be constructed, not received.”