BODIJA JOURNAL | A Philosophico-Theologal Journal

In contributing to the corpus of African philosophy, this paper examines the concept of matter in the thought system of Awolowo. Although Awolowo did not leave a systematic work on nature or the physical world, this philosophical discuss on matter is a construction from his various writings in other philosophical domains. For him, matter is atomistic in composition, dynamic and evolutionary in character. This thought system is sufficiently ingrained in his socio-political philosophy. Hence from the logic of reasoning this paper concludes that Awolowo has a philosophy of matter buried in his body of writings.

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