Curiosity transcends boundaries and foments African epistemologies

By Michael P.K. Okyerefo, University of Ghana/Nelson Mandela University

This paper contributes to de-centering western dominance and re-centering African Social thought.It argues that the real bedrock that is the ferment of African epistemologies is curiosity, the human person’s insatiable quest for answers to eternal questions, an art which transcends boundaries, the boundaries of culture, class, race and all the social categories society has created to celebrate difference. After all the said, difference results from a tempting human desire that sets superiority against inferiority, spurred by injustices in the human community, which are in turn fuelled by all kinds of ideologies.