Folorunso Paul Olorunsola
Department of Philosophy
Ekiti State University
Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

Abstract
The idea of African philosophy has been debated by both African and non-African orientations as an impossible academic enterprise and the debate seem to favour the Afrocentric scholars. Although, the effort is aimed at proving the existence of African Philosophy and whether it has achieved it desired objectives. However, the problem that contemporary African philosophers grapples with inter alia, borders on the question of methods and critical approaches to doing an authentic African Philosophy. This expectedly has led to the polemics oscillating among excavationist, deconstructionist, reconstructionist, and conversationist approaches, A critical probe on the basic thesis and nature of these approaches reveals that they maintain divergent dispositions toward each other. This of course, constitutes retardation to the general quest to establishing authenticity significant to African Philosophy and culture one that is relevant in contemporary era of science and technology. This paper comparatively engages deconstructionist and reconstructionist as critical approaches fundamentally aims at seeking a synergy between these two apparently opposing orientations.  The work argues that, owing to the peculiarity of cultures and the universality in the nature of man, there cannot be entirely cultural peculiarity or universality in Philosophy. Therefore, given the African experience, Africa Philosophy should be situated conciously in a synthesis between the particularists and the universalists views.

 Keywords: Deconstructionist, Reconstructionist, Particularist, Universalist,African Philosophy, and, Synergy