Nietzsche’s Intellectual Integrity and Epistemic Openness in Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems

This paper examines Nietzsche’s intellectual integrity and Africa’s indigenous knowledge system, with a view to showing how intellectual integrity can help improve epistemic openness in Africa’s knowledge systems. Nietzsche’s intellectual integrity represents his unique style of questioning, which designates his critical method of analysis and which is grounded in epistemic transparency, while Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems refer to certain aspects of African knowledge like rain-making, traditional orthopedic medicine etc. Attempts are made to highlight the dynamics of Nietzsche’s intellectual integrity and to articulate the essential ingredients of Africa’s Knowledge systems. These two will be critically examined to see how they play out regarding epistemic openness in Africa. The paper employs the method of historical hermeneutics and textual analysis/exposition.