African Philosophy

What I do not see, I do not know

African philosophy has been a no-show

Where did it come from? Where did it go?

It’s been hidden from history long ago

You'd have thought that it was Greek

Has philosophy been playing hide and seek?

We believe that it is from the west

Because that’s where philosophy was said to nests

Egyptian text on a temple wall

Someone found it and made the call

Socrates coined the phrase “man know thyself”

But he kept that info from everybody else / but he kept that info high on a shelf

Plato’s Theory of Ideas can be read

From the Egyptian Book of the Dead

To tell you the truth, and this I dread

This is not what he actually said

From the readings of Herodotus,

Laertius, and Pythagoras,

One philosopher is George James

And he is one of many names

Amo Anton was from Ghana

Which is far from Montana

His performance was greatly praised

It left faculty amazed for days

He was a master of philosophy

And as such was very coy

He moved to Wittenberg long ago

While Kant was still a boy

The west is known for having pride

They kept philosophy by their side

But what they truly could not hide

Was that philosophy is found world-wide

Every country has their own perspective

And as such they have incentive

Just because they’re so inventive

They think it’s their job to be corrective

Because we are the worlds clients

We must be logical to create reliance

And as such, philosophy and science

Must come together to form an alliance

In society we are often deceived

From where philosophy was actually conceived

It’s based on surroundings and what we perceive

It’s all up to you and what you believe

Philosophy is the love of wisdom

So shouldn’t we learn where exactly it came from?

If you study it then you will see

There is no definition of philosoph