Philosophia Africana

ISSN: 1539-8250

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    The Imperatives of Critical Thinking in Intercultural Philosophy.Jonathan O. Chimakonam & Dorothy N. Oluwagbemi-Jacob - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (2):100-117.
    In this research, an attempt is made to interrogate the practice of intercultural philosophy with a view to showing that the critical thinking mindset is imperative for a balanced, progressive, and respectful intercultural engagement. A world in which cultures relate to one another on the basis of equality, mutual respect, and recognition of one another’s identity and rights has remained elusive. The need for such a world and the dynamics of such transcultural relations form the central themes of intercultural philosophy. (...)
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  2. Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Africa: Introducing Innocent Asouzu’s Complementarity.Joyline Gwara, Diana Ekor & Aribiah David Attoe - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (2):63-77.
    To the authors’ knowledge, not much has been said or done in African philosophical circles with regard to providing a theoretical framework from which the discrimination against African women with disabilities can be addressed. In this article, the authors show how such a framework can be grounded in Innocent Asouzu’s complementarism. Their contention, one grounded in this framework, is that this discrimination has its roots in an isolationist, elitist, and exclusivist mindset/metaphysics. The authors further argue that one way to overcome (...)
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  3. African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy, by Jonathan O. Chimakonam and L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya.Isaiah A. Negedu - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (2):134-140.
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    “Who/What Neglected the Monotheism?”: A Panentheistic Rejoinder to Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe on African Traditional Religion.Emmanuel Ofuasia - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (2):78-99.
    Neglected monotheism is how Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe designate the common denominator among the various religious cultures found across sub-Saharan Africa. This is a product of their engagement with such traditional African religious themes as God’s nature, God’s will, life beyond death, and the duration of existence beyond or without a body consequent on death. This article uses traditional Yoruba theology and its ritual archive, the Ifa corpus, to argue that Metz and Molefe’s monotheistic proposal is a hasty generalization. (...)
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  5. Value and Culture.Victor Peterson Ii - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (2):118-133.
    Alain Locke’s theory of value and functional equivalence is placed within more recent formalizations of functional analysis, recursion, and composition toward the study of sociocultural and political formation. With these resources in hand, Locke’s theory is proved to be one undergirding and integral to current studies of diaspora and sociocultural analysis.
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    Kwame Gyekye as a Pan-Psychist.Adá Agadá - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (1):28-44.
    Kwame Gyekye has been called a dualist to the extent that he accepts the ontological distinction between mind and matter, with both phenomena interacting with each other. I argue in this article that Gyekye’s presentation of the sunsum as a universal animating principle that is itself nonmaterial and irreducible to a material base warrants a second look at his philosophy of mind to determine whether he can be considered a pan-psychist and whether a pan-psychist reading can resolve the Gyekyean problem (...)
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    Christianity in the Kingdom of Kongo and Western Theism: A Comparative Study of the Problem of Evil.Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (1):13-27.
    Philosophers have been intrigued by the problem of evil for centuries: How can God and evil coexist? This article tries to answer this question by using Kongolese religious thought from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I contend that the Kongolese view gleaned from historical sources and complemented by contemporary African philosophical scholarship contains sufficient resources to reply to this problem coherently. Particularly, I argue that, from the Kongolese viewpoint, evil in the world can be explained as follows. God and other (...)
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    Reading Wiredu, by Barry Hallen.Parker English - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (1):45-55.
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    On the Object of History and Doing History in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa.Olerato Kau Mogomotsi - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (1):1-12.
    Haydon White’s Metahistory interprets representations of history as inherently reflecting historians’ subjectivity. That is, the modes in which historians represent history are significantly determined and grounded by their ideological commitments. In this article, I offer a metahistorical analysis of the modes of doing history undertaken by the African Islamic intellectual historians Ousmane Kane and Souleymane Bachir Diagne. I critically evaluate the consistency between the object of history as they assume it to be and the discourses they produce, taking account of (...)
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    Sankara Is Not Dead, dir. Lucie Viver.Stepheń Phirí - 2022 - Philosophia Africana 21 (1):56-62.
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