African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Author: D A Masolo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1474470777
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Encyclopedia of African Religion
Author: Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1412936365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Transcendent Development
Author: Andani Thakhathi
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-01-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1802622594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranscendent Development contains morally courageous, creative storytelling prose offering paradigm shifts, empirical evidence and surprising “antenarratives” that explain how a harmonious Africa may be realised, starting in the Mother Continent’s Southern-most tip.
Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization
Author: Messay Kebede
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789042008106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
An Introduction to African Philosophy
Author: Sam O. Imbo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1998-03-26
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1461636507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions of African philosophy? Is ethno-philosophy really philosophy? What are the dangers of an African philosophy that claims to be 'unique'? Can African philosophy be done in foreign languages such as English and French? Are there useful ways to make connections between African philosophy, African American philosophy, and women's studies? By making cross-disciplinary and transnational connections, Imbo stakes out an important place for African philosophy. Imbo's book is an invaluable introduction to this dynamic and growing area of study.
Bantu Philosophy
Author: Placide Tempels
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781884631092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe African Philosophy Reader
Author: P.H. Coetzee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 1027
ISBN-13: 1135884188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDivided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
African Philosophy and Thought Systems
Author: Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9956763152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.
Sage Philosophy
Author: Henry Odera Oruka
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004452265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.
Trends and Issues in African Philosophy
Author: F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781433107504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.
