The third sentence of the last paragraph has a similar meaning to Those who are skeptic and who have an unremitting desire to remain ignorant play down the idea that there could be an African philosophy.

Due to the grammatical function the pronoun "which" has in the first sentence of the second paragraph, it would be grammatically correct to add a comma after "societies".

In the third sentence of the first paragraph, the fragment "Little did he realise " emphasizes the fact that Aristotle had no idea of the consequences of his definition of "man".

At the end of the second paragraph, if the fragment "questionable belief" were replaced with questionable beliefs, the change would require "was" to be replaced with were for the sentence to remain grammatically correct.

The text can be correctly understood as a criticism of the attitude of the co lonizers towards knowledge originally produced or found in non-white cultures.