Critical rationalism and cultural traditions in African philosophy

The university has been a potent and revolutionary machine in the recent history of African culture. Throughout the continent, the university has milled the ingredients of change in African societies. These ingredients, the intellectuals, technocrats, and their knowledge, became the agents for reshaping the structures and images of their respective indigenous communities in ways that eventually led to debates on the meaning and nature of history. In this paper, I will discuss the views on "traditions" of one Samuel Onyango Ayany, a well-known Kenyan educator and one of the pioneers of university education in East Africa spearheaded by Makerere University College.