Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

For sure, the desire for knowledge is innate in human beings. The human person is always in search of truth. The pertinent question now is: How do we justify truthclaims? Or put differently: How do we achieve a wholistic understanding of truth of reality? These and the related questions constitute the thrust of this paper. Therefore, in a bid to achieve the goal of this paper, we shall first of all analyze the concept of Igwebuike philosophy as understood in I. A. Kanu, and also present a general notion of truth and African epistemology. The paper focussed on Igwebuike philosophy and truth-claim in African epistemology. Thereafter, it ends with a conclusion.

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