Ikwa Ogwe.
Essential
A Systematic
Methodological Approach.
By
Pages:
439
ISBN:
978-016-595-4
First Published 2007
by Saesprint Publishers,
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Book Description:
The main title of the book “Ikwa Ogwe” is derived from the Igbo language. Ikwa = build; Ogwe= bridge. Thus, Ikwa Ogwe means “building a bridge” in the
scientific sense of adopting a methodological systematic approach to an
inquiry. It is in this sense of methods and systems serving as bridges (ogwe) that traditional Igbo philosophers of
the complementary system of thought aver, onye
kwaa ogwe, amara uche ya (it is when one builds a bridge that we know his
mind). The book offers a collection of some of Prof. Asouzu’s numerous efforts
devoted to “Complementary Reflection”, as a
major philosophical trend in contemporary African philosophy. Thus, this
book offers one of the most comprehensive attempts at giving an outline of some of those
themes the author has handled from the perspective of complementary reflection,
as a major philosophical trend in contemporary African philosophy. It does this in a
systematic methodological way and this is what marks it out. Just as building a
bridge or ikwa ogwe, this book is
designed to enable the reader understand how the basic assumptions of
complementary reflection can be applied to diverse areas of knowledge and to
practical issues of existence. The essays span a period of over twenty-five
years in the course of which the author has tried to articulate his ideas into
a system and follows a method peculiar to this system in presenting his ideas.
The book is intended to augment some of the major works of the author.