Wiredu K., Abraham W.E., Irele A., Menkiti I.A. (eds.) A Companion to African Philosophy

Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. — 608 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) — ISBN: 0-631-20751-1.This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy — logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and politics, among others — as these have occupied the African mind in both communal and individual conceptions. A special feature of the volume is its historical dimension, including a substantial treatment of ancient African philosophy as encountered in ancient Egypt, an extended study of medieval North African thinkers, an enlightening discussion of pre-colonial African philosophy, and a history of African political thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Egypt: Ancient History Of African Philosophy / Théophile Obenga
African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era / D. A. Masolo
Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic / Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Some 19th-Century African Political Thinkers / Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek
Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.
Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey / Barry Hallen
Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid / Mabogo P. More
Philosophy in North Africa / Mourad Wahba
The Light and The Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the 17th Century / Claude Sumner
Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy / Teodros Kiros
Anton Wilhelm Amo / W. E. Abraham
Amo’s Critique of Descartes’ Philosophy of Mind / Kwasi Wiredu
Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice / Mabogo P. More
Frantz Fanon (1925 — 1961) / Teodros Kiros
Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral / Tsenay Serequeberhan
Alexis Kagame (1912 — 1981): Life and Thought / Liboire Kagabo
Post-Independence African Political Philosophy / Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy / A. G. A. Bello
Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance and Future / Kibujjo M. Kalumba
Logic in the Acholi Language / Victor Ocaya
Yoruba Moral Epistemology / Barry Hallen
Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions / Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Toward a Theory of Destiny / Segun Gbadegesin
On the Normative Conception of a Person / Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
African Concepts of a Person: A Critical Survey / Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani
Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind / Safro Kwame
Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues / Olusegun Oladipo
Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion / Samuel O. Imbo
Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World / Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics / Godfrey B. Tangwa
Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture / John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa / Kofi Agawu
Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality / Nkiru Nzegwu
The Many-Layered Aesthetics of African Art / Ajume H. Wingo
Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy / Edward Wamala
Democracy, Kingship and Consensus: A South African Perspective / Joe Teffo
Fellowship Associations as Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa / Ajume H. Wingo
Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy and the State in Africa / George Carew
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Violence / Ali A. Mazrui
Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison / D. A. Masolo
Human Rights in the African Context / Francis M. Deng
The Politics of Memory and Forgetting after Apartheid / Pieter Duvenage
The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections / John Murungi
Knowledge as a Development Issue / Paulin J. Hountondji
African Philosophy and African Literature / Anthony Kwame Appiah
Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa / Jean-Godefroy Bidima
Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender / Nkiru Nzegwu