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.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
2. African Philosophy: appraisal of a recurrent problematic
3. Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age
4. A Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, Nkrumah and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Post-Modernity
5. Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji and Mudimbe.
6. Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning
7. Rethinking the History of African Philosophy
8. The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics
9. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy
10. Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?
11. The Geography of African Philosophy
12. Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa
13. An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy
14. Confucianism and African Philosophy
15.Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy
16. Philosophy of Afrocentricity
17. “Black” Philosophy, “African” Philosophy, “Africana” Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in “Philosophy”
18. Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
19. The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limit of Continental Philosophy
20. On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation
21. Sophia, Phronesis and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy
22. Gendering African Philosophy; Or: African Feminism as Decolonising Force
23. Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective
24. Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality
25. African Philosophy, Afropolitanism and “Africa”
26. Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa
27. Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and North Africa
28. The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading
29. Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization
30. Community, Communism, and Communitarianism
31. African Humanism and Ethics: The Case of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí
32. Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law
33. Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa
34. African Philosophy at the African Cinema
35. Philosophy of Science and Africa
36. Supporting the African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions
37. Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance
38. Indigenous (African) Knowledge System, Science and Technology
39. African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology
40. Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory
41. Ubuntu and the Environment
42. African Philosophy in a World of Terror
43. Yorùbá Conception of Peace
44. African Philosophy and Education
45. Ritual Archives
46. Philosophy, Education and Art in Africa
47. Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-position
48. African Philosophy for Children
49. African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse
50. A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy
About the author
Adeshina Afolayan holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the editor of Auteuring Nollywood (2014).Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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