The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

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This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization (Adeshina Afolayan, Toyin Falola)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 African Philosophy: Appraisal of a Recurrent Problematic (Godfrey Tangwa)....Pages 19-33 Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age (Sanya Osha)....Pages 35-47 A Philosophical Re-reading of Fanon, Nkrumah, and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Postmodernity (Teodros Kiros)....Pages 49-60 Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji, and Mudimbe (D. A. Masolo)....Pages 61-73 Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning (Gail M. Presbey)....Pages 75-96 Rethinking the History of African Philosophy (Safro Kwame)....Pages 97-104 The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics (Jonathan O. Chimakonam)....Pages 105-128 Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy (Godfrey Tangwa)....Pages 129-140 Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy? (Muyiwa Falaiye)....Pages 141-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 The Geography of African Philosophy (Bruce B. Janz)....Pages 155-166 Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa (Anke Graness)....Pages 167-179 An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy (Teodros Kiros)....Pages 181-206 Confucianism and African Philosophy (Thaddeus Metz)....Pages 207-221 Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy (A.G.A. Bello)....Pages 223-230 The Philosophy of Afrocentricity (Molefi Kete Asante)....Pages 231-244 “Black” Philosophy, “African” Philosophy, “Africana” Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in “Philosophy” (Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.)....Pages 245-267 Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (Clevis Headley)....Pages 269-286 The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limits of Continental Philosophy (Walter D. Mignolo)....Pages 287-301 On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation (Peter Amato)....Pages 303-313 Sophia, Phronēsis, and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy (Omotade Adegbindin)....Pages 315-330 Front Matter ....Pages 331-331 Gendering African Philosophy, or: African Feminism as Decolonizing Force (Louise du Toit, Azille Coetzee)....Pages 333-347 Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective (Olayinka Oyeleye)....Pages 349-369 Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality (Workineh Kelbessa)....Pages 371-389 African Philosophy, Afropolitanism, and Africa (Adeshina Afolayan)....Pages 391-403 Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa (Pieter Boele van Hensbroek)....Pages 405-416 Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and Northern Africa (Christopher Wise)....Pages 417-429 The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading (M. S. C. Okolo)....Pages 431-446 Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization (Messay Kebede)....Pages 447-459 Community, Communism, Communitarianism: An African Intervention (Ifeanyi Menkiti)....Pages 461-473 African Humanism and Ethics: The Cases of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí (Bola Dauda)....Pages 475-491 Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law (Leonhard Praeg)....Pages 493-506 Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa (Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju)....Pages 507-523 African Philosophy at the African Cinema (Adeshina Afolayan)....Pages 525-537 Philosophy of Science and Africa (Helen Lauer)....Pages 539-553 Front Matter ....Pages 555-555 Supporting African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions (Lesiba Teffo)....Pages 557-570 Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance (Polycarp Ikuenobe)....Pages 571-584 Indigenous (African) Knowledge Systems, Science, and Technology (Kai Horsthemke)....Pages 585-603 African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology (Helen Lauer)....Pages 605-620 Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory (Michael Onyebuchi Eze)....Pages 621-632 Ubuntu and the Environment (Edwin Etieyibo)....Pages 633-657 African Philosophy in a World of Terror (Leonhard Praeg)....Pages 659-670 Yorùbá Conception of Peace (Adebola B. Ekanola)....Pages 671-680 Front Matter ....Pages 681-681 African Philosophy and Education (Kai Horsthemke)....Pages 683-701 Ritual Archives (Toyin Falola)....Pages 703-728 Philosophy‚ Education‚ and Art in Africa (John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji)....Pages 729-764 Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-Position (Philip Higgs)....Pages 765-778 An African Philosophy for Children: Towards a Situated Paradigm (Amasa Philip Ndofirepi)....Pages 779-793 African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse (Thaddeus Metz)....Pages 795-812 A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy (Anthony Onyemaechi Chukwu)....Pages 813-826 Back Matter ....Pages 827-867