SOURCE : EPISTEMOLOGICAL DUALISM AND THE PRIMAL OTHER
That the Bantu word for being can only be performed as a copula and that within this schema the Cartesian cogito cannot be translated is probably the most radical way of stating that the essence of African ontology, usually adumbrated in the expression “I am because others are, and because others are I am”, is diametrically opposed to tile Cartesian schema adumbrated in the expression “I think therefore I am”.
