Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization -- Prologue -- Is Philosophy Stagnant? The Idea of Progress in African Philosophy -- The Three Stages in the Evolution of African Philosophy -- The Handbook of African Philosophy -- References -- Part I Preliminaries and Reappraisals -- Chapter 2 African Philosophy: Appraisal of a Recurrent Problematic -- Part I: The Sources of Traditional African Philosophy -- Introduction -- African Philosophy -- Two Senses of Philosophy -- The Importance of Writing -- The Traditional and the Modern -- Part II: What Is African Philosophy, and Who Is an African Philosopher? -- The Most Important Question -- The Way I See It -- References -- Chapter 3 Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age -- Individuated Excursions -- Folk Knowledge -- Loss and Recognition -- The School of Wiredu and Its Detractors -- References -- Chapter 4 A Philosophical Re-reading of Fanon, Nkrumah, and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Postmodernity -- Fanon and the AfricanBlack Self -- Kwame Nkrumah and the African Personality -- Cabral, the African Self, and the Autonomous African Socialist Path -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji, and Mudimbe -- Introduction -- Kwasi Wiredu -- Main Works -- Naturalism -- Epistemological Naturalism -- Moral Naturalism -- Wiredu's Philosophy of Mind -- Valentin Yves Mudimbe -- Paulin Hountondji -- References -- Chapter 6 Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning -- Introduction -- Recent Scholarship on Sage Philosophy -- References -- Chapter 7 Rethinking the History of African Philosophy -- Introduction -- Two Conceptions of African Philosophy -- Four Questions on African Philosophy.

Three Factors on African Philosophy -- On Defining African Philosophy -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics -- Introduction -- Background to the Problematic of African Logic -- Beyond Apologias and Polemics -- The Apologists: Senghor, Winch, Sogolo -- Ethnologic and Complementary Logic -- The Polemicists: Makinde, Uduma, Wiredu -- The Three System Builders: Verran, Ijiomah, and Ezumezu Logic -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy -- Introduction -- Purpose and Uses of Language -- Language and Culture -- Language Situation in Africa -- The Case Against the Use of the Colonial Languages -- Linguistic Pragmatism -- Need to Domesticate the Colonial Heritage -- Contemporary Situation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy? -- Introduction -- African Philosophy Today -- African Philosophy and the Problem of African Studies -- Addressing Levy-Bruhl's Theory of Primitive Mentality -- African Philosophy as a Grundnorm of African Studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Philosophical Traditions and African Philosophy -- Chapter 11 The Geography of African Philosophy -- "Africa" in World and African Philosophy -- Africa's Diverse Philosophical Spaces -- Colonialism, External Forces, and African Philosophy -- Remembered, Reconstructed, Imagined, Desired Spaces of Thought: Afrocentrism and Afrofuturism -- Philosophy on the African Continent and in the World -- African Philosophy's Place in the World: Its Allegiances and Conversations -- African Philosophy and African Places -- Philosophy-in-Place -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa -- The Historical Specificity of Portuguese-Speaking Africa.

Political Philosophy: Conceptualizing African Liberation Movements -- Trends in Contemporary Philosophy -- References -- Chapter 13 An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy -- Interpreting the Fisalgos and the Book of the Philosophers -- The Fisalgos -- The Book of the Philosophers -- The Life and Maxims of Skendes -- The Modernity of the Treatise of Zara Yacob -- Method -- Existence and Existential Seriousness -- The Investigation of Faith and Prayer -- Human Nature -- Knowledge -- The Treatise of Walda Heywot: From Philosophy to Social Ethics and Pragmatism -- Knowledge -- Faith -- Custom -- Social Matters -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14 Confucianism and African Philosophy -- Introduction: The Emergence of South-South Engagements -- The Confucian Tradition in Context -- Key Similarities Between Confucian and African Values -- Key Differences Between Confucian and African Values -- Conclusion: Some Neglected Topics -- References -- Chapter 15 Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy -- Introduction -- Islamic Philosophy -- African Philosophy -- Moving African Philosophy Forward -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16 The Philosophy of Afrocentricity -- Definition -- Main Concepts -- CenterednessOff-centeredness -- Agency and Agency Reduction -- LocationDislocation -- Lexical Refinement -- Position, Orientation, and Disorientation -- LossnessLostness -- Invisibility and Disappearance -- Search for Maat -- Afrocentricity and Negritude -- Afrocentricity and Nascimento's Quilombismo -- Afrocentricity and Pan-Africanism -- Afrocentricity and Cheikh Anta Diop -- Afrocentricity and Education -- Afrocentricity and History -- Afrocentricity and Africology -- Afrocentricity and Postmodernism -- Chronology of Afrocentricity -- Criticisms of Afrocentricity -- Key Documents of Afrocentric Scholarship.

Chapter 17 "Black" Philosophy, "African" Philosophy, "Africana" Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in "Philosophy" -- References -- Chapter 18 Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy -- Theorizing the Middle Passage -- Brathwaite's Negotiating the Abyss -- The Intertexuality of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy -- Brathwaite on Africa and Caribbean Writing -- Wilson Harris, African Myths, and Afro-Caribbean Historiography -- References -- Chapter 19 The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limits of Continental Philosophy -- The Entrapment and the Colonial Epistemic Differences -- The Mirage of Universalism Behind European Localism -- The Advent of "Black Thinkers" and the Future of Cosmopolitan Localism -- References -- Chapter 20 On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation -- Vernacular Reason -- Linguisticality, Tradition, and Reason -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 21 Sophia, Phronēsis, and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy -- Introduction -- On Sophia, Phronēsis, and Mutations of Philosophy -- Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy -- References -- Part III Issues and Discourses -- Chapter 22 Gendering African Philosophy, or: African Feminism as Decolonizing Force -- Introduction -- Remembering the Sexual Trauma of Colonization -- Oyěwùmí on Gender and Relationality -- The Colonial Creation of Gender in Yoruba Society -- The Sub-saharan Tradition of Relational Thought -- In Conclusion: Decolonization and the Feminist Potential in African Relational Thought -- References -- Chapter 23 Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective -- Introduction -- Feminism and Feminisms -- Truth Is a Woman -- Black Feminism -- African Feminism(s) -- What Is Gender? -- Feminism and the Construction of Gender as Otherness.

Reengaging the Gender Issue from a Yoruba Perspective -- Efunsetan Aniwura -- 1. The Performativity of "Oko" and "Aya" in Yoruba Traditional Societies -- 2. The Biologically Gendered Implication in Oriki as Attributive Name -- The Amutorunwa -- The Abiso -- The Oriki -- Seniority as a Marker for Oppression -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 24 Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality -- Introduction -- Arguments Against African Sexualities -- Arguments for African Sexualities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 25 African Philosophy, Afropolitanism, and Africa -- Introduction: Stalled Identity? -- Selasi and Afropolitanism -- Mbembe and Afropolitanism -- African Philosophy and Afropolitanism -- Emancipation and Afropolitanism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 26 Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa -- References -- Chapter 27 Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and Northern Africa -- References -- Chapter 28 The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading -- Introduction -- Text Summary -- The Repressive State in African Literature -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 29 Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization -- The African Dilemma -- Universality and Contingency -- The Need for Deconstruction -- Reassessing Negritude -- Temporalization in Lieu of Racialization -- References -- Chapter 30 Community, Communism, Communitarianism: An African Intervention -- References -- Chapter 31 African Humanism and Ethics: The Cases of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí -- Introduction -- The Philosophical Realities of African Nation-States in a New World -- African Philosophies for Governance and Social Responsibilities -- African Humanism and Ethics in Perspective -- African Oral and Moral Codes: Òwe as the Yorùbá Epistemic Corpus of Morality -- The Yoruba Political System and Philosophy of Governance -- African Philosophy of Justice.

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