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Summary African philosophy today is a dynamic and original discipline. Philosophers in the African context address such issues as the methodologies best suited to the study of Africa's indigenous intellectual and cultural heritages, how philosophy can contribute to the understanding and solution of contemporary African social and political concerns, as well as core issues and problems of international academic philosophy.
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  1. The Question of Modern Science in Africa and the Middle East.Zeyad El Nabolsy - 2025 - In Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee & Monica Popescu (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter focuses on an important problem in the intellectual history of the Global South, namely the relationship between modern scientific knowledge and colonialism. This problem was of concern to theorists from the Global South, such as Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral, who were active during the high tide of decolonization in the middle of the twentieth century, and it continues to be of relevance today. This chapter shows how this problem has deep historical roots in the Global South, beginning (...)
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  2. The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South.Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee & Monica Popescu (eds.) - 2025 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  3. James Africanus Beale Horton on Naturalism, Baconianism, and Race Science in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology.Zeyad El Nabolsy - 2025 - Journal of Modern Philosophy 6 (2).
    In this paper I show that James Africanus Beale Horton launched an internal critique of race science as it developed in the hands of Robert Knox, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt. The latter three held an inductivist Baconian conception of science. Horton shows that their practices as scientists and natural philosophers contradict their own conception of what one must do in order to do good science. Horton’s critique of race science has important implications for philosophical anthropology as it took shape (...)
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  4. The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South.Mourad Wahba & Zeyad El Nabolsy - 2024 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Translated by Zeyad El Nabolsy.
    In The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South , Mourad Wahba explores the relevance of the philosophy of the Enlightenment to contemporary issues in Egypt and the Global South more generally. Wahba provides a historical account of the reception of Enlightenment philosophical discourse in the Arabic-speaking world through the study of the work of Rifaʿa al-Tahtawi, Muhammed Abdu, Farah Antun, Abbas Mahmoud al-ʿAqqad, and Louis Awad. Wahba argues that the claim that human reason is (...)
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  5. A Critical Conversation with Bernard Matolino on his Consensus as Democracy in Africa.O. Chimphambano - 2024 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 13 (2):51-59.
    Matolino's book critically analyses consensual democracy, a political system often hailed as a natural fit for African societies. Through this, Matolino questions the viability of consensus amidst modernity and examines its potential shortfalls. By comparing consensus to majoritarian democracy, Matolino highlights the challenges associated with each of the aforementioned systems. The book also explores the historical roots of consensus in African societies and its compatibility—or lack thereof—with contemporary majoritarian democratic principles as advocated in the West. Ultimately, Matolino suggests that while (...)
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  6. The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities_, by Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. Edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, and Wendy Laura Belcher.Jonathan Egid - forthcoming - Mind.
    The Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and Ḥatäta Wäldä Həywät are two remarkable works of philosophy that were until recently virtually unknown to philosophers outside Ethiopia. The first is a philosophical autobiography narrated by the eponymous Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob, a scholar from Aksum in northern Ethiopia, exiled from his home country and forced to take refuge in a mountain cave, where he develops a philosophical system that encompasses a metaphysics of creation, an analysis of the relation between the divine and the human, an (...)
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  7. Standpoint epistemology, internal critique, and the characterization of Equiano as an Enlightenment thinker.Zeyad El Nabolsy - 2024 - Atlantic Studies 22.
    This article shows that Olaudah Equiano’s struggles to escape from the condition of enslavement allowed him to attain a privileged epistemic position in relation to certain domains of knowledge. Equiano utilized this privileged epistemic vantage point to launch an internal critique of some strands of Enlightenment philosophy. In the process of launching this internal critique, Equiano also undermined a claim to ownership that was implicitly made by prominent defenders of both slavery and theories of racial superiority in relation to the (...)
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  8. Living Proof.Janet L. Borgerson - 2008 - CLR James Journal 14 (1):269-283.
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African Philosophy: Topics
  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. (1 other version)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. Roma: 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, District of Columbia]: The Council for Research in Value and Philosophy. 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. (2 other versions)Teaching African Philosophy Alongside Western Philosophy: Some Advice about Topics and Texts.Thaddeus Metz - 2018 - In Etieyibo Edwin (ed.), Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum. London, UK: Routledge. pp. 173-183.
    Reprint of an article that initially appeared in the South African Journal of Philosophy (2016).
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  9. 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 =. Frankfurt am Main: IKO, Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation.
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African Philosophy: Aesthetics
  1. Estamos Aqui. Debates afrolatinoamericanos em Perspectiva Brasil Argentina Vol. 1 - ISBN: 978-65-88329-18-4.Natacha M. U. R. I. E. L. Lopez Gallucci (ed.) - 2021 - JUAZEIRO DO NORTE: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CARIRI.
    Tomando como ponto de partida as investigações e percursos do Grupo de Pesquisa FiloMove: Filosofias, Artes e Estéticas do movimento (PRPI) da Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA), instituição jovem do interior do Ceará, Brasil, e em consonância com os objetivos do Instituto Interdisciplinar de Sociedade, Cultura e Artes (IISCA) nasce o Dossiê bilíngue ESTAMOS AQUI! Debates afrolatinoamericanos em perspectiva Brasil Argentina (Vol. 1). A expectativa visa contribuir com esses debates desde o Cariri, na aberta convicção acerca dos valores emancipatórios e (...)
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  2. How to say a beautiful ‘hello’ – inspired by philosophy from non-English speaking cultures.Lloyd Strickland - 2024 - The Conversation.
  3. Philosophy, Language, and Literature in an African Context.Wilfred Lajul (ed.) - 2025 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    This book analyzes the deeper philosophical meanings behind selected African poems, novels, and plays to provide new ways of understanding the relationship between philosophy and language. The contributors examine the backgrounds and philosophical worldviews of African literary writers and their use of fiction, myth, and drama to communicate truth.
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  4. The African Twin Towers. Unveiling the Creative Process in Christoph Schlingensief's Late Film Work.Jérémy Hamers - unknown
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  5. “Safe in Each Other’s Scaly Arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts.Marta Mboka Tveit - 2024 - In Nora Castle & Giulia Champion (eds.), Animals and Science Fiction. Springer Verlag. pp. 39-58.
    In African speculative fiction, there can be found examples of texts that touch on (neo)colonial displacement, uprootedness, and alienation. Through evoking the familiar Other—the nonhuman animal, the hybrid, or even the monster—these texts both portray an (ongoing) shared trauma and express a quiet refusal of narratives of separation and hierarchy. Here I examine how this “uneasy” kinship is critically embraced and operates in the short story “When the Levees Break” by Edwin Okolo (2022). Second, I explore David Uzochukwu’s “black merfolk” (...)
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  6. A Discourse on Kantian Aesthetics and African Social Order.Oni Babatunde Olatunji - 2023 - Cogito: Journal of Philosophy and Social Inquiry 1 (1):42-54.
    This paper delves into the intersection of Kantian aesthetics and African social order, highlighting the intriguing tension between these two seemingly distinct philosophical realms. Immanuel Kant's aesthetic theory, primarily articulated in his “Critique of Judgment”, has long been regarded as a cornerstone of Western philosophical thought, emphasizing the universality of aesthetic judgments and the autonomy of the individual. Conversely, African social order is deeply rooted in communalism, emphasizing the interconnectedness of individuals within a community and the importance of shared values (...)
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  7. 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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  8. Intelligent design: and the African ontological epistemological aesthetics.Isaac Christopher Lubogo - 2021 - Kampala, Uganda: Jescho Publishing House.
  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Chapter Forty-Eight African Afro-futurism.Gavin Steingo - 2020 - In Giovanni Aloi & Susan McHugh (eds.), Posthumanism in art and science: a reader. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 279-284.
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  12. 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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  13. The Ontology of Hair and Identity Crises in African Literature.Joseph O. Fashola & Hannah Abiodun - 2021 - Iasr Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (1):36-42.
    The significance of hair is deeply rooted in African ontology. It depicts leadership status and when shaved off completely, may sometimes signify mourning or lack of dignity. In Benin-city of Edo state in Nigeria, Chiefs who are mostly men are identified by their unique hair-styles. It shows their position of leadership in the society and when a king dies, all the men in the kingdom are expected to shave off their hair as a sign of respect for the departed king. (...)
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  14. Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.Emery Patrick Effiboley - 2023 - 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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  15. African Art: Debates and Controversies Around a Concept.Babacar Mbaye Diop - 2023 - 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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  16. "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 Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 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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  17. When Punks Grow Up.Thomas Meagher - 2022 - In Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy. Carus Books. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press.
  20. 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. New York: Routledge.
  21. 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. New York: Routledge.
  22. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2023 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  23. 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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  24. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2023 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy. New York, NY: Routledge.
  25. Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction.Aderemi Oladele - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  26. Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development.Angela Roothaan - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  27. We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition.Pius Mosima & Nelson Shang - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  28. The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation.Diana-Abasi Ibanga - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  29. (1 other version)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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  30. 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. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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  31. 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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  32. ‘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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  33. 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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