Can anyone name some African Philosophers who impacted the modern world?

I’m looking for an African (not Arabian or African-American, but just African) philosopher who has impacted the modern world. I’m also looking for some amazing African Architecture from around the Greek era. Or well from any era will be fine. This shouldn’t be too hard since they inhabit the entire African continent right?

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    Philosophy in North Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, and continuing through the birth of both Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of “ma’at”, which roughly translated refers to “justice”, “truth”, or simply “that which is right”. One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries.

    North African philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

    In the Hellenistic tradition, the influential philosophical school of Neoplatonism was founded by the Egyptian philosopher Plotinus in the 3rd century CE.

    In the Christian tradition, Augustine of Hippo was a cornerstone of Christian philosophy and theology. He lived from 354 to 430 CE, and wrote his best known work, The City of God, in Hippo Regius, (now Annaba, Algeria). He challenged a number of ideas of his age including Arianism, and established the notions of original sin and divine grace in Christian philosophy and theology.

    In the Islamic tradition, Ibn Bajjah philosophized along neo-Platonist lines in the 12th century C.E. The purpose of human life, according to Bajja, was to gain true happiness, and true happiness is attained by grasping the universals through reason and philosophy, often outside the framework of organized religion.

    Ibn Rushd philosophised along more Aristotelian lines, establishing the philosophical school of Averroism. Notably, he argued that there was no conflict between religion and philosophy, and instead that there are a variety of routes to God, all equally valid, and that the philosopher was free to take the route of reason while the commoners were unable to take that route, and only able to take the route of teachings passed on to them.

    Ibn Sab’in challenged the above view, arguing that Aristotelian methods of philosophy were useless in attempting to understand the universe, because those ideas failed to mirror the basic unity of the universe with itself and with God, so that true understanding required a different method of reasoning.

  2. Noles Says:

    Marcus Garvey is the founder of Pan-Africanism. This movement advocated a sense of pride in blacks in their historical roots.

  3. xxmachina Says:

    Archimedes, who worked in Alexandria. A well known philosopher-engineer.

    St. Augustine, one of the mamjor philosphers of the Christian religion.

  4. Naz F Says:

    St. Augustine. (Archimedes doesn’t count, as he’s Greek – born in Sicily.)

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