Embodier and Inventor...pphhht.

“[G]iven that the “West” presents itself as the embodiment and inventor of the “universal,” we must protest even more loudly that its universal is so peculiar and that its global is so local. That is, the West, in constructing the universal, instead of truly embracing all that there is, or at least what of it can be so embraced, has merely puffed itself up and invited the rest of humanity, or the educated segment of it, to be complicit in this historical swindle.”

- Olufemi Taiwo, “Exorcising Hegel’s Ghost: Africa’s Challenge to Philosophy” (1997)