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  1. An Existential Interpretation of Evil: A Critique of Ẹ̀bùn Odùwọlé and Kazeem Fáyẹmí on the Philosophical Problem of Evil in Yorùbá Thought.Abidemi Israel Ogunyomi - 2024 - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47 (1):87-101.
    The problem of evil is a perennial issue in metaphysics, philosophy of religion and theology. In Yorùbá thought, it has been approached, appraised, and conceptualised by scholars from different perspectives, usually in the form of thesis and antithesis. For instance, Ẹ̀bùn Odùwọlé and Kazeem Fáyẹmí disagree on whether or not the problem arises in Yorùbá thought and on its nature or formulation, if it does. Relying on the Western logical formulation of the problem, Odùwọlé maintains that the problem of evil (...)
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  2. Philosophical Counselling as a Method of Practising Contemporary African Philosophy: Setting the Context for a Conversation between Serequeberhan and Chimakonam.Jaco Louw - 2024 - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47 (1):117-130.
    Philosophical counselling is typically conceptualised as a praxis going beyond academic and theoretical philosophy. However, two problems soon follow, namely the lack of agreed-upon methods and a substantial neglect of different philosophical traditions informing its practice. In this article, I propose reconceptualising philosophical counselling as a distinct method through which academic philosophy can be practised. This allows me to introduce an understanding of African philosophy, inspired by African philosophers Chimakonam and Serequeberhan, that might encourage the philosophical counsellor to render academic (...)
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  3. Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong.Patrick Effiong Ben - 2023 - South African Journal of Philosophy 42 (1):13-23.
    I aim to establish in this article why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: I will first establish the inconsistency of the idea of predeterminism in an evolving universe. Then, I argue that the adirectionality presupposed by an evolutionary universe gives room for free will and negates the argument for a predeterministic universe. I aim to achieve (...)
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  4. Kritische Traditionen: Afrika. Philosophie als Ort der Dekolonisation.Ulrich Lölke - 2001 - Frankfurt: IKO, Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation.
  5. De la philosophie au mouridisme.Moussa Kane - 2001 - [Senegal?: [S.N.].
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  6. Tsenay Serequeberhan: Un'Ermeneutica dell filosofia africana.Marco Massoni - 2001 - In Lidia Procesi Xella & Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia (eds.), Prospettive di filosofia africana. Edizioni associate.
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  7. Ubuntu ethics and humane business management in the global capitalist context.Gail M. Presbey - 2022 - In Workineh Kelbessa & Ṭanā Dawo (eds.), Philosophical Responses to Global Challenges with African Examples: Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, Iii. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP). pp. 207-242.
    Ubuntu, or humanness, has been theorized as a uniquely African contribution to the world. At the same time, others insist that it is a universal ethical principle. This paper particularly wants to look at a sub-theme of ubuntu studies, regarding how some of the authors and researchers have wanted to apply it to business, even suggesting that ubuntu can provide a model for ethical management principles that can also result in better outcomes for businesses. To approach business with an ethical (...)
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  8. Proposals for a more contextual philosophy programme.Josephat Obi Oguejiofor - 2003 - In Luke G. Mlilo & Nathanaël Yaovi Soédé (eds.), Doing Theology and Philosophy in the African Context =. Iko, Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation.
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African Philosophy: Aesthetics
  1. The African Novel and the Question of Communalism in African Philosophy (Roundtable on Jeanne-Marie Jackson's "The African Novel of Ideas").Zeyad El Nabolsy - 2023 - Safundi 24.
    Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing provides an analytic framework for understanding the novel as a form of philosophical expression in African intellectual history. More specifically, she uses individualism as a tool for tracking the expression of abstract “philosophical thinking” in a selection of African novels. For Jackson, it is the fictional individual in the novel who is the primary bearer of philosophical thought. Jackson situates this interpretative heuristic vis-à-vis the (...)
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  2. Intelligent design: and the African ontological epistemological aesthetics.Isaac Christopher Lubogo - 2021 - Kampala, Uganda: Jescho Publishing House.
  3. World, Class, Tragicomedy: Johannesburg, 1994.Liam Kruger - 2023 - College Literature 50 (2-3):349-382.
    Marlene van Niekerk's 1994 Triomf is a plaasroman, or farm novel, without the farm; it formally resembles a nostalgic pastoral genre initiated by the collapse of Southern African agricultural economy around the time of the Great Depression, but removes even the symbol of the farm as aesthetic compensation for material loss. In the process, van Niekerk composes a post-apartheid tragicomedy of a lumpenproletariat white supremacist family coming into long-belated class consciousness, an epiphany which, surprisingly, survives the novel's translations from Afrikaans (...)
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  4. East African Asian Writing and the Emergence of a Diasporic Aesthetic.Peter Simatei - 2023 - In Patrick Oloko, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei & Clarissa Vierke (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics II: Modes of Relating. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 20367-21182.
    This article traces the emergence of East African Asian writings and their struggle with questions of national belonging and diaspora. It argues that although this emergence was part and parcel of the literary developments that were taking place in the East Africa region in the 1960s, these writings would later distinguish themselves as texts that are not only framed by the ambivalent and diasporic histories of Indians in imperial and postcolonial East Africa but also as writings that consciously construct ambivalent (...)
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  5. Chapter Forty-Eight African Afro-futurism.Gavin Steingo - 2020 - In Giovanni Aloi & Susan McHugh (eds.), Posthumanism in art and science: a reader. Columbia University Press. pp. 279-284.
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  6. Re-discovering the African philosophy of the architecture through the other/other's lens. European-based considerations.Anna Rynkowska-Sachse - unknown
    THE UIA 2014 PROCEEDINGS, DURBAN 2014, 2014 The Western definitions of the "smart cities" are concentrated around three main elements. First approach describes the "smart city" as the organized body, using the new technologies in the manner to increase the efficiency of the infrastructure and communication interconnectivity (Azkuna, 2012). Another approach emphasizes the role of the sensors, mobile devices, to create digital dimension of the city (Schaffers, 2012). Yet another approach presents the city as the area consisting of populations implementing (...)
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  7. Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.Emery Patrick Effiboley - 2022 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 59-78.
    To colonise the African continent and later on expand its domination upon the rest of the world, Europe has denied history and by so doing history of art to Africa. This denial has infiltrated into all the fields of Euro-African relations and to some extent all human endeavors along the centuries.Standing from a decolonial point of view, this paper aims at questioning the art historical discourse on Africa so as to show how African art history moved from colonialist discourse to (...)
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  8. African Art: Debates and Controversies Around a Concept.Babacar Mbaye Diop - 2022 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 45-57.
    Whether classical or contemporary, the arts of the African continent have always been defined, often negatively, by Western categories. After identifying the different appellations of the arts in Black Africa, the controversies and misunderstandings in the debates on their semantic connotations and mutations, this article argues that the Western perspective that claims the right to define African art must be reconsidered from the sole point of view of Africa.
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  9. "Introduction" in Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development, edited by B Bateye, M Masaeli, L.F Müller and A Roothaan. African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue, 1-11. Maryland, USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023.Louise Muller & Angela Roothaan - 2023 - In Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Maryland: Roman and Littlefield. pp. 1-11.
    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of (...)
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  10. When Punks Grow Up.Thomas Meagher - 2022 - In Joshua Heter (ed.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy. La Salle, IL, USA: pp. 47-56.
    An analysis of punk in light of the theme of existential maturity through discussions of Simone de Beauvoir, Devon Johnson, and the relationship between nihilism, seriousness, and revolt.
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  11. Philosophy and Culture in the African Movies.John Ezenwankwor - 2019 - Maryland Studies: An International Journal of Philosophy and African Studies 16 (1):58-74.
    The discussions on the relation between philosophy and movies are not quite popular because of the generally believed idea that they front different methods in their presentation of reality. While the movies present ideas in the form of appearance and actions, philosophy presents ideas through a method of reflective analysis and debate. Notwithstanding the differences in method, this paper takes the view that movies often present, in the most distinct and clearer ways, a people's culture and philosophy, even to the (...)
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  12. Zollywood and the eclipse of Christianity by African tradtional religion in post-colonial Zimbabwe.Robert Matikiti - 2022 - In William H. U. Anderson (ed.), Film, Philosophy and Religion. Vernon Press.
  13. The globalization of Africana aesthetics.Theophus "Thee" Smith - 2022 - In Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.), Ashé: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression. Routledge.
  14. The globalization of Africana aesthetics.Theophus "Thee" Smith - 2022 - In Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.), Ashé: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic. Routledge.
  15. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2022 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and Through the Academy. Routledge.
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  16. Ashé: ritual poetics in African diasporic.Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.) - 2022 - Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
    ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and (...)
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  17. Ashé: ritual poetics in African diasporic expression.Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.) - 2022 - New York: Routledge.
    ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and (...)
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  18. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2022 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy. Routledge.
  19. Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction.Aderemi Oladele - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  20. Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development.Angela Roothaan - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  21. We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition.Pius Mosima & Nelson Shang - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  22. The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation.Diana-Abasi Ibanga - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  23. Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development.Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.) - 2023 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
    'Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development' won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2023 as mentioned on the Rowman and Littlefield webpage. The book investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning (...)
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  24. Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: "Dwelling in the World" With Poetry and Criticism.Jean-Godefroy Bidima - 2021 - In Jean Godefroy Bidima & Laura Hengehold (eds.), African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: Acts of Transition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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  25. An African Oresteia : Field Notes on Pasolini's Appunti per un' Orestiade africana.M. D. Usher - 2014 - Arion 21 (3):111.
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  26. ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.Isaac N. Mwinlaaru & Mark Nartey - 2022 - Critical Discourse Studies 19 (5):556-572.
    Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancipation is the national anthem of colonised states. To fill this gap, the present study examines the discursive enactment of resistance in the anthems of former British colonies in Africa, focusing on the transitivity framework in systemic functional linguistics. Semantic and structural parallelisms (...)
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  27. Moments of realization: extending Homeworld in British-African Novelist Doris Lessing’s Four-Gated City.David Seamon - 2022 - Continental Philosophy Review 55 (4):519-535.
    For Husserl, the _homeworld_ is the tacit, taken-for-granted sphere of experiences, understanding, and situations marking out a world that is comfortable, usual, and “the way things are and should be.” Always, according to Husserl, the homeworld is in some mode of lived mutuality with an _alienworld_—a world as seen as a realm of difference, atypicality, and otherness. In this article, I draw on British-African novelist Doris Lessing’s 1969 novel, _The Four-Gated City_, to consider the shifting homeworld of protagonist Martha Quest, (...)
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  28. Caught in the Cosmic Web: Ghanaian Folk Tales in the Twenty-First Century.Louise Muller & K. Dorvlo - 2022 - Amsterdam, Nederland: Quest for Wisdom Foundation.
    This e-book is a collection of orally transmitted folktales about animals, currently circulating among the Ewe and Akan people of Ghana. Many of the stories in this bundle provide an explanation for the appearance of the most remarkable Ghanaian animals. For example, why does the parrot have such beautiful feathers? And why does the Pin-tailed Whydah have such a long tail? For sure, Ghanaian storytellers know the answer. They shared their animal wisdom stories, including those of the famous spider Anansi, (...)
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  29. The de-Africanization of African Art: Towards Post-African Aesthetics.Denis Ekpo & Pfunzo Sidogi - 2021 - Routledge.
    This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. (...)
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  30. Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts.Dike Okoro - 2021 - Routledge.
    This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa has always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing, images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This (...)
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  31. Architecture, West African Built Environment.Jean-Paul Bourdier & Trinh T. Minh-ha - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 60-65.
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  32. Aesthetic, African Dance.Kariamu Welsh Asante - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 7-9.
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  33. Aesthetic, African.Kariamu Welsh Asante - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 5-7.
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  34. On the Search for Identity in African Architecture.Emmanuel Babatunde Jaiyeoba - 2021 - In Adeshina Afolayan (ed.), Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 141-163.
    There is a contention on whether African architecture actually exists especially in relation to possessing a distinct identity. Also, African architecture is rarely discussed within mainstream contemporary theoretical debates in Architecture except with respect to influences on arts, artists and architecture in the developed world and generally speaking architecture of the past. This chapter reviews the different perspectives and conceptualisations on African architecture and its global influences. Furthermore the sources of and obstacles to identity formation in African architecture were reviewed (...)
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  35. The “African Prints”: Africa and Aesthetics in the Textile World.Tunde M. Akinwumi - 2021 - In Adeshina Afolayan (ed.), Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 123-140.
    The chapter challenges the aesthetic imprints of Vlisco, a Dutch firm, whose representation of Africa’s image in its textile products and fabrics exported to Africa over many decades left much to be desired. The artistic contents of the products, mainly an amalgam of Javanese, Indian, Chinese, Arab and European cultural imageries, are branded as “African prints”. The chapter considered several arguments for and against Vlisco’s “African prints,” as well as the objection for a global understanding of textile and their aesthetic (...)
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  36. Braz Teixeira, António: A saudade na poesia lusófona africana E outros estudos sobre a saudade, Mil (movimento internacional lusófono) E dg edições, Linda-a-velha (portugal), 2021, 170p. [REVIEW]Luis García Soto & Miguel Ángel Martínez Quintanar - 2021 - Agora 41 (1).
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  37. Philosophy and figures of the African female.Sanya Osha - 2006 - Quest - and African Journal of Philosophy 20 (1-2):155-204.
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  38. Crafting Epicenters of Agency': Sarah Bartmann and African feminist literary imaginings.Pumla Dineo Ggola - 2006 - Quest - and African Journal of Philosophy 20 (1-2):45-76.
  39. Can there be an Authentically African Literature in English.Godfrey B. Tangwa - 1997 - Quest - and African Journal of Philosophy 11 (1-2):69-79.
  40. Olusegun Oladipo: Philosophy, Literature and the African Novel. [REVIEW]Willem Storm - 1993 - Quest - and African Journal of Philosophy 7 (2):127-129.
  41. Semiotic Elements in Yoruba Art and Ritual.J. R. O. Ojo - 1979 - Semiotica 28 (3-4):333-348.
    Various Yoruba ritual elements--verbal utterances, songs, dance movements, drums and drum rhythms--are extracted from ceremonies connected with their usage as a semiological system.
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  42. The Symbolism and Significance of Epa-type Masquerade Headpieces.J. R. O. Ojo - 1978 - Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (3):455-470.
    Illustrations and analysis of a specific type of masquerade in the Yoruba culture of Nigeria.
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