Olúfémi Táíwò on the narrow canon of establishment African philosophy:

“Only the foolhardy now deny the existence of African Philosophy or its philosophical pedigree. But if one were to peruse some of the recent works, textbooks and anthologies, published in the discipline, especially in the United States, one would be ill-served by the narrowness of the focus and the limited works that are marked as foundational. Indeed the thrust of my discussion in this paper came from reflections about a few recent books in African philosophy; African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry edited by Ivan Karp and Dismas Masolo and Richard Bell’s Understanding African Philosophy, to be specific. In perusing those books one is likely to come away with the impression that the discipline is a conversation among Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, Kwame Gyekye, Odera Oruka, and Anthony Appiah, in the first book, with Barry Hallen and J. Olubi Sodipo, and Wole Soyinka thrown in.” (Olúfémi Táíwò, “Beyond the Usual Suspects: Towards Renewing the Foundations of African Philosophy.”)