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Ezumezu

A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies

Ezumezu

Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Ezumezu A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies

Jonathan O. Chimakonam Department of Philosophy University of Calabar Calabar, Nigeria

ISBN 978-3-030-11074-1    ISBN 978-3-030-11075-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11075-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933294 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To the distant, anonymous African logicians, who are now remembered only as ancestors—that your good name and honour desecrated in the colonial times may now be restored. To my peers, who toil from an impossible historical position in the fields of African philosophy and studies—that our successors may come to know that we did original stuffs. To all my teachers from childhood, we wrote this book together. To all my students, past and present, for all that you taught me. And finally, to my HP Pavilion g6 Notebook computer, 6 years in loyal service without disappointments, this is your last completed book before your scheduled retirement—I don’t know what humans might think about this, but I feel you deserve this dedication.

Foreword

I read this brilliant and groundbreaking book in the manner the author wanted me to read it: as an exercise of my own self-education. As I imagine it, Jonathan O. Chimakonam’s idea, in having invited me to write the foreword, was to test the type, the limits and the possibilities of a possible dialogue between two scholars, separated by conventional criteria, but conv