What is philosophy and what is it worth knowing? This is the question that deserves to be asked, against those who accuse African thought of being anti-philosophical and anti-scientific.
 Should Africans today claim the paternity of philosophy on the grounds that this cultural genre was born in ancient Egypt and that the ancient Greek philosophers who for contemporary Westerners would be the only inventors of philosophy, are not for us than vulgar copyists?
 Philosophy as it is practiced today has nothing to do with its well-known etymology: Love of wisdom; nor with the original philosophy: the MAAT, which is a true science of the improvement of the being. But the misconceptions tending to have a worrying lifespan, Jean-Pierre Kaya allowed himself to reconsider what philosophizing means ... and the question of whether or not African culture is capable of generating the philosophical spirit and the scientific spirit, to provide a decisive answer.