Abstract
Blacks are reluctant philosophers. But the present essay is not an apology. It is rather an attempt to blaze a new trail. We believe that there is an implicit philosophy within the black experience which needs analysis and interpretation. Among highly advanced Asian people, the Japanese have been reluctant
philosophers. Until they made contact with the West, their philosophy was limited for the most part to ethics and this was based upon Confucian
principles imported from China through the Korean Kingdoms. More to the point, however, Africans appear likewise to be reluctant philosophers in the formal sense. But recent writers on African religion and culture make a serious case for an implicit philosophy of the African experience.