Interrogates Euro-American epistemological constructions of Africa from Antiquity to the relative present, alongside African scholarly responses within colonially imposed frameworks. The book engages a wide range of themes conjoined by an overarching concern about how African philosophy has, and might still, engage the hermeneutical trappings of Western knowledge systems. Beyond the context of African history, this work engages conversations in history of philosophy, colonial studies, and postcolonial studies.