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Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : Hope Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : IND:30000050650153
Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061198043
"Kwasi Wiredu is one of Africa's foremost philosophers, whose thinking on conceptual decolonization in contemporary African systems of thought is well known. Wiredu advocates a re-examination of current African epistemic formations in order to subvert unsavoury aspects of tribal cultures embedded in modern African thought, as well as deconstruct the unnecessary Western epistemologies to be found in African philosophical practices. In this book Sanya Osha argues that Wiredu's apparent schematism falls short as a viable project and suggests that because of the very hybridity of postcoloniality, projects seeking to retrieve the precolonial heritage are bound to be marred at several levels. Language itself presents a major problems which Wiredu's thesis does not fully address."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042033184
This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.
Author : Messay Kebede
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401200875
This 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.
Author : D. Munguci Etriga
Publisher : Domuni-Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9782366482126
In honour of Kwasi Wiredu (1931 - 2022) He was a Ghanaian, considered one of the greatest pillars in African philosophy. After elementary education in his native country, he attended Oxford University and studied under the renowned British philosopher of mind Gilbert Ryle. The studies under Ryle significantly influenced his mature philosophical writings in that, he exhibits thoroughly the tenets of analytic philosophy (see, The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy, 61).
Author : Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu,Yusef Waghid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030156893
This book focuses on understandings of higher education in relation to notions of decoloniality and decolonization in southern Africa. The volume draws on a range of case studies in multiple politico-cultural contexts on the African continent, and examines some of the challenges to be overcome in order to achieve education for decolonization and decoloniality. Acknowledging that patterns of exclusion, inequality and injustice are still prevalent in the African higher education landscape, the editors and contributors proffer bold attempts at democratizing education and examine how to cultivate just, equal and diverse pedagogical relations. Featuring case studies from South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, the authors and editors examine how higher education can be further democratized and transformed along the lines of equality, liberty and recognition of diversity. This hopeful and bold collection will be of interest to scholars of decoloniality and decolonization in higher education, as well as higher education in southern Africa more specifically.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : UCAL:B5067379
Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Louise du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351120081
This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosphy exacerbates this marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its ramifications; why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of women’s epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raise feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns for various women’s rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is proposed as the last frontier of feminism.
Author : Godwin Sogolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015056928396
The Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ibadan addresses the controversial question as to whether or not there is something distinctive which can be described as African philosophy. He goes beyond this and lays out a foundation for an emerging indigenous African philosophy. Based on his belief that a modern African philosophical tradition can be nourished within the context of African culture, history and experience, he conducts a philosophical analysis of the conceptual implications of major issues, beliefs and thought systems that are particular to Africa. His thesis illustrates the need for a new orientation of thinking amongst African scholars, both those in search of an African philosophical tradition and those in search of a new order.
Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253210801
"Wiredu's discussion of culturally defined values and concepts, as well as his attention to such timely issues as human rights, makes this book invaluable interdisciplinary reading." —D. A. Masolo Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu confronts the paradox that while Western cultures recoil from claims of universality, previously colonized peoples, seeking to redefine their identities, insist on cultural particularities. Wiredu asserts that universals, rightly conceived on the basis of our common biological identity, are not incompatible with cultural particularities and, in fact, are what make intercultural communication possible. Drawing on aspects of Akan thought that appear to diverge from Western conceptions in the areas of ethics and metaphysics, Wiredu calls for a just reappraisal of these disparities, free of thought patterns corrupted by a colonial mentality. Wiredu's exposition of the principles of African traditional philosophy is not purely theoretical; he shows how certain aspects of African political thought may be applied to the practical resolution of some of Africa's most pressing problems.
Author : Innocent Asouzu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015073881222
Author : Chike Jeffers
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438447438
Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation. A groundbreaking contribution to the discipline of philosophy, this volume presents a collection of philosophical essays written in indigenous African languages by professional African philosophers with English translations on the facing pagesdemonstrating the linguistic and conceptual resources of African languages for a distinctly African philosophy. Hailing from five different countries and writing in six different languages, the seven authors featured include some of the most prominent African philosophers of our time. They address a range of topics, including the nature of truth, different ways of conceiving time, the linguistic status of proverbs, how naming practices work, gender equality and inequality in traditional society, the relationship between language and thought, and the extent to which morality is universal or culturally variable.
Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1566393809
In this sustained and nuanced attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, Kwame Gyekye rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It must, Gyekye argues, arise from African thought itself, relate to the culture out of which it grows, and provide the possibility of a continuation of a philosophy linked to culture. Offering a philosophical clarification and theology, and ethics of the Akan of Ghana, Gyekye argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy as well as cultural values in the modern world. --
Author : Edwin Etieyibo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351336154
This book, appropriately titled Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, signposts and captures issues about philosophy, the philosophy curriculum, and its decolonisation and Africanisation. This topic is of critical importance at present for the discipline of philosophy, not the least because philosophy and the current philosophical canons are perceived to be improvised by virtue of their historical marginalisation and exclusion of other valuable and important philosophical traditions and perspectives. The continued marginalisation and exclusion of one such philosophical tradition and perspective, i.e. African philosophy connects to issues of space contestations and raise questions of justice. The chapters in this book engage with all of these issues, and they also attempt to make sense of what it will mean for philosophy and the philosophy curriculum to be decolonised and Africanised; how to go about achieving this task; and what the challenges and problems are that confront efforts to decolonise and Africanise the philosophy curriculum. Furthermore, the contributors initiate discussions on the value and importance of non-western philosophical traditions and perspectives, and by so doing challenge the dormant and triumphant narrative and hegemony of Western philosophy, as well as the centrality accorded to it in philosophical discourse. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.
Author : Uchenna Okeja
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253059895
Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In Deliberative Agency, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it around the ubiquitous African practice of public deliberation, a widely accepted means to resolve legal matters, reconcile feuding groups, and reestablish harmony. In cities, hometown associations and voluntary organizations carry out the task of fostering deliberation among African groups for different reasons. In some instances, the deliberation aims to settle disputes. In others, the aim is to decide the best action to take to address unfortunate incidents such as death. Through a measured, comparative analysis, Deliberative Agency argues that the best way to reimagine and harness the idea of public deliberation, based on current experiences in Africa, is to see it as performance of agency. Building a new political center around the practice places agency at the core of a new political life in Africa.