“The primary problem isn’t that North Atlantic philosophers don’t read Africana thinkers and theorists; the deeper problem is that they don’t know how to read them.”
— Omedi Ochieng

“An important fact which many philosophers often forget is that the level of success of a project in philosophy can only be adequately determined when a critic has a clear understanding of the primary challenge a colleague sets out to meet.”
— Sophie Oluwole,”Oruka’s Mission in African Philosophy”

“Paul Grice use to say that we “should treat great and dead philosophers as we treat great and living philosophers, as having something to say to us.” That is fine, so long as it is not assumed that what the dead have to say to us is much the same as what the living have to say to us. Unfortunately, this is probably what was being assumed by those who, in the heyday of confidence in what was being called the “analytic history of philosophy,” encouraged us to read something written by Plato “as though it had come out in Mind last month” – an idea which, if it means anything at all, means something that destroys the main philosophical point of reading Plato at all.”
— Bernard Williams, “Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline”)

“Questions that, alas, I don’t see often enough from a certain kind of philosopher: How should I read this? What is the background against which this speech act is emergent? What is this utterance’s (asymptotic) horizon? Who is being addressed and why?”
–Omedi Ochieng