AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT

SUB-PAGES

Topics:

• African and African Diasporic Literature

Feminist / Womanist:

• African and African Diasporic Feminist Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• African Studies Association

• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP)

• Vereinigung von Afrikanisten in Deutschland (African Studies Association in Germany)

• African Studies Association of Ireland

• Association for the Study of Classical African Civilisations

• Canadian Association of African Studies

• Cercle philosophique de Kinshasa (Zaire)

• Ethics Society of South Africa

• International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS)

• International Society for the Study of Africa (ISSA)

• Philosophical Association of Kenya

• Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

• Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA)

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Philosophy in East Africa: Towards Critical Thinking, Professionalism and Democracy, Philosophy Unit, University of Dar es Salaam, November 18-20

• Communities and Transformations in Africa and African Studies, Annual Conference, Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), Queens University, May 4-7

• Re-Thinking the Idea of Africa in the Twentieth Century, 15th Annual Conference, International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, University of Cheikh Anta Diop-Dakar, April 1-3

• Black Diaspora Visual Arts Symposium, Frank Collymore Hall, Bridgetown, Barbados, February 13-14, 2009.

2008:

• African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years on, University of Warwick, November 6-8

• Perspectives on African Decolonization: African Intellectuals and Decolonization, Center for African Studies, Ohio University, October 2

• Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 20-21

• 11th Conference of Africanists, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, May 22-24

• Annual Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, January 16-18

2007:

• Internationalising Black Power, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, and Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, London, October 25-26

• Ethics, Culture and Justice: African and Africana Perspectives, 13th Annual Conference, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, South Africa, April 2-4

• Annual Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, Department of Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch, January 17-19

2006:

• Africa's Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems, Department of History, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria, October 24

• Re-Educating  the African in the 21st Century: Through Balance, Peace and Justice (Ma'at), 1st World Conference 2006, John Henrik Clarke-C.L.R. James African World Research Institute, Aswan (Egypt), July 19-25

• Wissen und Wissenschaft in Afrika (Knowledge and Science in Africa), African Studies Association in Germany, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung (ZIAF) (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Africa), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, July 13-16

• Forging the Local and the Global: Textual Migration and Translation, University of Stellenbosch, July 9-12

• Egypt: Africa's Glorious Daughter, African New World Studies, Florida International University, February 16-17

• Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe, Frankfurt University, Germany, June 1-3

• Ethics and Africa, Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, May 29-31

• Human Rights: Africana and Multicultural Perspectives, 12th Annual Conference, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), University of Leicester, April 20-23

• 33rd Annual Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA), Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, January 16-18

2005:

• Congresses, Conferences, Commissions: African Visions and Visions for Africa, 6th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Ireland, University College Dublin, December 3

• Realities Re-Viewed / Revealed: Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, July 4-5

• Philosophy, Ideology and Civil Society, 11th Annual Conference of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, March 10-12

• 32nd Annual Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, Department of Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, January 24-26

2004:

• Fifth Annual Conference, African Studies Association of Ireland, University of Ulster, Magee, December 3-4

• Fantasmes d'Afrique / Fantasizing Africa, Département d'Anglais, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France, November 18-19

• Philosophy, Globalisation and Justice, 10th Annual Conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, April 2-3

• 31st Annual Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, University of Natal and University of Durban-Westville, January 19-21

2003:

• Philosophy and Development in Africa, 9th Annual Conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 27-29 

2002:

2001:

• African Philosophy at the Threshold of the New Millennium, Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, Addis Ababa University, March 9-11

• African and Black Philosophy: Past, Present, and Future, DePaul University, March 9-10

2000:

• African Philosophy: the Next Fifty Years, Hamline University, April 27-29

• Thought and Practice in African Philosophy, Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Nairobi, March 10-12 (Report by Kai Kresse)

1999:

• Exploring African Philosophy Through Africa's Literature, Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies, Loyola University of Chicago, March 19-21

COURSES

• University of Central Florida: African Philosophy and Postcolonial Studies (Janz has moved from Augustana College but this link, though, updated does not work)
• University of Dar es Salaam: 
  • African Political Thought I
  • Classic and Contemporary African Political Thought
• University of London, SOAS: Religious and Philosophical Thought in Africa (Kresse)
• Marist College: African Philosophy (Moses)
• University of Nairobi: African Philosophy (Janz, Ochieng'-Odhiambo, Presbey)
• University of Oxford: African Philosophy (King)
• San Francisco State University: Introduction to African Philosophy (Obenga)
• Sienna College: African Philosophy (Nlandu)
• University of South Florida: African Philosophy (Wiredu) 2001 / 2003
• Trinity College: African Philosophy (Wade)

JOURNALS

• ACAS [Association of Concerned Africa Scholars] Bulletin

• Africa

• African Journal of History and Culture

• African Mind: a Journal of Religion and Philosophy in Africa (Kampala, Uganda)

• African Philosophical Inquiry

• African Studies Quarterly

• Afrique et Philosophie (Cercle philosophique de Kinshasa)

• Alternation

• Cahiers philosophiques africains (Universite nationale du Zaire, Lubumbashi)

• Consequence: Journal of the Inter-African Council of Philosophy (Cotonou, Dahomey)

• Éthiopiques: revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie

• Exchorésis: revue africaine de philosophie (l'Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon)

• Foundations of African Theology (Nigeria)
• Imodoye: a Journal Of African Philosophy (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Lagos, Nigeria)
• Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• International Journal of Theology and Philosophy in Africa
• Journal of African Philosophy and Studies (Lagos, Nigeria)

• Journal of African Religion and Philosophy (Kampala, Uganda)

• Journal of Contemporary African Studies

• Journal of Cultural Studies (Nigeria)

• Journal of Philosophy and Development (Dept. of Philosophy, Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria)

• Journal on African Philosophy

• Journal of Southern African Studies,

• Makerere Political Science Review

• Philosophia Africana (formerly African Philosophy)

• Philosophical Papers (Witwatersrand & Rhodes University, South Africa)

• Présence Africaine

• Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy

• Revue philosophique de Kinshasa (Departement de philosophie et religions africaines, Faculte de theologie catholique de Kinshasa, Zaire)

• Revue Sénégalaise de philosophie

• Sapina: Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America

• Second Order: an African Journal of Philosophy (Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

• South African Journal of Philosophy

• Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire

• Theoria (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

• The Thinker (Nigerian Association of Philosophy Students, Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria)

• Thought and Practice: Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya

• Transition Magazine

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Placide Tempels (1906 - 1977)
• Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906 - 2001)
• Kwame Nkrumah (1909 - 1972)
• Alexis Kagame (1919 - 1981)
• Albert Memmi (1920 - )
• Julius Nyerere (1922 - 1999)
• Chiekh Anta Diop (1923 - 1986)
• Amilcar Cabral (1924 - 1973)
• Patrice Lumumba (1925 - 1961)
• Chinua Achebe (1930 - )
• Marcien Towa (1931 - )

• Kwasi Wiredu (1931 - )

• John Mbiti (1931 - )

• Wole Soyinka (1934 - )

• Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1938 - )

• V. Y. Mudimbe (1941 - )

• Sunday O. Anozie (1942 - 2001)

• Paulin Hountondji (1942 - )

• Henry Odera Oruka (1944 - 1995)

• Abdul JanMohamed (1945 - )

• Okonda Okolo (1947 - )

• Alex Callinicos (1950 - )

• Tsenay Serequeberhan (1952 - )

• Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954 - )

• Kobena Mercer (1960 - )

• Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo (1960 - )

• Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze  (1963 - 2007)

• Chinweizu ( - )

• Simon Gikandi ( - )

• Kwame Gyekye ( - )

• F. Abiola Irele ( - )

• Samuel Oluoch Imbo (1961 - )

• Didier Kaphagawani  ( - )

• D. A. Masolo ( - )

• Olufemi Taiwo ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Asante, Molefi, and Abu S. Abarry, eds.  African Intellectual Heritage: a Book of Sources.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996.
  • Bodunrin, P. O., ed.  Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives.  Ile-Ife: U of Ife P, 1985.
  • Brown, Lee M., ed.  African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives.  Oxford: OUP, 2004.
  • Coetzee, P. H., and A. P. J. Roux, eds.  The African Philosophy Reader.  London: Routledge, 1998.

  • Coetzee, P. H., and A. P. J. Roux, eds.  Philosophy from Africa: a Text With Readings.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.

  • Diemer, Alwin, ed.  Philosophy in the Present Situation of Africa.  Weisbaden: Franz Steiner, 1981. 
  • English, Parker, and Kibujjo M. Kalumba, eds.  African Philosophy: a Classical Approach.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, ed.  African Philosophy: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • Floistad, Guttorm, ed.  African Philosophy.  Vol. 5 of  Contemporary Philosophy: a New Survey.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1987.
  • Kiros, Teodros, ed.  Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community, Ethics.  New York: Routledge, 2001.
  • Kwame, Safro, ed.  Readings in African Philosophy: an Akan Collection.  New York: UP of America, 1996.
  • Mkandawire, Thandike, ed.  African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development.  London: Zed, 2005.
  • Mosley, Albert G., ed.  African Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.
  • Mutiso, Gideon-Cyrus, and S. W. Rohio, eds.  Readings in African Political Thought.  London: Heinemann, 1975.
  • Serequeberhan, Tsenay, ed.  African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.

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  • Wright, Richard, ed.  African Philosophy: an Introduction.  Lanham: UP of America,  1977.
  • Arts:
    • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed.  Black Literature and Literary Theory.  New York: Methuen, 1984.  Rpt. 1990.
    • Gugelberger, Georg M., ed.  Marxism and African Literature.  London: James Currey, 1985.
    • Olaniyan, Tejumola, and Ato Quayson, eds.  African Literature: an Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Abraham, W. E.  The Mind of Africa.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1962.
  • Bodunrin, Peter O.  "Philosophy in Africa: the Challenge of Relevance and Commitment."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  15-35.
  • Bodunrin, Peter O.  "The Question of African Philosophy."  Philosophy 56.216 (1981): 161-179.  Rpt. in African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.  63-86.
  • Bujo, Benezet.  Wider den Universalanspruch Westlicher Moral.  2000.
    • Foundations of an African Ethic: Beyond the Universal Claims of Western Morality.  Paulines, 2003.
  • Desai, Gaurav.  Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library.  Durham: Duke UP 2001.
  • Ekpo, Dennis.  "Towards a Post-Africanism: Contemporary African Thought and Postmodernism."  Textual Practice 9.1 (1995): 121-135.
  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.  On Reason: Rationality for a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism.  Durham: Duke UP, 2008.

  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.  Achieving Our Humanity: the Idea of the Postracial Future.  London: Routledge, 2001.

  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.  "Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  
  • Gbadegesein, 'Segun.  African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities.  New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
  • Griaule, Marcel.  Dieux 'd'eau: entretiens avec Ogotemmeli.  Paris: Chene, 1948.  
    • Conversations with Ogotemmeli: an Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas.  Trans. A. I. Richards and B. Hooke.  Oxford: OUP, 1965.
  • Horton, Robin.  Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science.  Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
  • Horton, Robin.  "African Traditional Religion and Western Science."  Africa 37.1-2 (1967): 50-71; 155-187.  Rpt. as "African Traditional Thought and Western Science."  Rationality.  Ed. Bryan R. Wilson.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984.  Rpt. in Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science.  197-258.
  • Horton, Robin.  "Traditional Thought and the Emerging African Philosophy Department: a Comment on the Current Debate."  Second Order 6.1 (1977): .
  • Jacques, T. Carlos.  "Is There an African Philosophy?  The Politics of a Question."  Sapina: Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America
  • Kebede, Messay.  Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
  • Keita, Lansana.  "Contemporary African Philosophy: the Search for Method."  Praxis International 5.2 (1985): .  Rpt. in African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.  132-155.
  • Keita, Lansana.  "African Philosophical Systems: a Rational Reconstruction."  The Philosophical Forum 9.2-3 (1977-1978): .
  • Makinde, M. Akin.  "African Culture and Moral Systems: a Philosophical Study."  Second Order 1.2 (1988): 1-27.
  • Makinde, M. Akin.  African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine.  Athens: Ohio UP, 1988.
  • Makinde, M. Akin.  "A Philosophical Analysis of the Yoruba Concepts of Ori and Human Destiny."  International Studies in Philosophy 17.1 (1985): 53-69.
  • Makinde, M. Akin.  "An African Concept of Human Personality: the Yoruba Example."  Ultimate Reality and Meaning 7.3 (1984): 189-200.
  • Maurier, Henri.  "Do We Have an African Philosophy?"  African Philosophy: a Classical Approach.  Ed. Parker English and Kibujjo M. Kalumba.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.  25-40.
  • Mbembe, Achille.  De la Postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine.  Paris: Karthala, 2000. 
    • On the Postcolony.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
  • Mbembe, Achille.  "Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie." 
    • "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony: Obscenity and the Rites of Colonial Power."  Africa 62 (1992): 3-37.
  • Momoh, Campbell C.  "African Philosophy: Does It Exist?"  Diogenes 130 (1985): 73-104.

  • More, Magobo.  "African Philosophy Revisited."  Alternation 3.1 (1996): 109-129.

  • Mphalele, Ezekiel.  The African Image.  London: Faber and Faber, .

  • Ndaw, A.  La Pensée Africaine: recherche sur les fondements de la pensée négro-Africaine.  1983.

  • Obenga, Théophile.  African Philosophy: the Pharaonic Period, 2780-330 BC.  Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, .

  • Obenga, Theophile.  A Lost Tradition: African Philosophy in World History.  Philadelphia: Source Editions, 1995.

  • Obenga, Theophile.  Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: a Student's Handbook for th Study of Ancient Egypt in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Gender Relations.  London: Karnak, 1992.

  • Obenga, Theophile.  L'Afrique dans l'Antiquité.  Paris: Presence Africaine, 1970.

  • Oguejiofor, J. Obi, and G.I. Onah, eds.  African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture: Essays in Honour of Theophilus Okere.  LIT VERLAG, 2005.

  • Oguejiofor, J. Obi.  Philosophy and the African Predicament.  Lagos: Hope, 2001.

  • Oguejiofor, J. Obi, ed.  Africa, Philosophy and Public Affairs: Proceedings of an International Conference held at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, from April 29 to May 3, 1997.  Enugu, Nigeria: Delta Publications, 1998.

  • Okere, Theophilus.  Culture and Society in Africa.  Enugu, Nigeria: Afro-Orbis, 2005.

  • Okere, Theophilus.  African Philosophy: a Historico-Hermeneutical Investigation of the Conditions of its Possibility.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1983.

  • Okolo, Chukwudum B.  African Social and Political Philosophy: Selected Essays.  Nsukka: Fulladu Publishing, 1993.

  • Okolo, Okonda.  "Tradition and Destiny: Horizons of an African Philosophical Hermeneutics."  Presence Africaine 114 (1980): .  Rpt. in African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.  200-210.  Rpt. in African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.  29-46.

  • Oladipo, Olusegun.  The Idea of African Philosophy: a Critical Study of the Major Orientations in Contemporary African Philosophy.  Ibadan: Molecular, 1992.

  • Onyewuenyi, Innocent Chilaka.  The African Origin of Greek philosophy: an Exercise in Afrocentrism.  Nsukka: U of Nigeria P, 1993.

  • Onyewuenyi, Innocent Chilaka.  "Is There an African Philosophy."  Journal of African Studies 3.4 (1976-1977): 513-528.

  • Owomoyela, Oyenka.  "Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy: a Skeptical Consideration."  African Studies Review 30.1 (1987): 79-100.  Rpt. in African Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Albert G. Mosley.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.  236-262.

  • Ruch, E. A.  "Is There an African Philosophy?"  Second Order 3.2 (1974): .
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  • Sodipo, J. O.  "Philosophy, Science, Technology and Traditional African Thought."  Philosophy and Cultures.  Ed. Henry Odera Oruka and D. A. Masolo.  Nairobi: Bookwise, 1983.  36-43.
  • Sodipo, J. O.  "Philosophy in Africa Today."  Thought and Practice 2.2 (1975): .
  • Sogolo, Godwin S.  Foundations of African Philosophy: a Definitive Analysis of Conceptual Issues in African Thought.  Ibadan: U of Ibadan P, 1993.
  • Wamba-dia-Wamba, Ernest.  "Philosophy in Africa: Challenges of the African Philosopher."  African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  New York: Paragon, 1991.
  • Ya'ecob, Zar'a.  "The Treatise."  Understanding Non-Western Philosophy: Introductory Readings.  Mountain-View: Mayfield, 1993.  [c.1599 - 1692]
  • Yeboah, Samuel Kennedy.  The Ideology of Racism.  London: Hansib, 1988.
  • Arts:
    • Amuta, Chidi.  The Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism.  London: Zed, 1989.

    • Bolland, John.  Language and the Quest for Political and Social Identity in the African Novel.  Accra: Woelli Publishing Services, 1996. 

    • Comas, James.  "The Presence of Theory / Theorising the Present."  Research in African Literatures 21.1 (1990): 5-31.
    • Gugelberger, George M.  "Marxist Literary Debates and their Continuity in African Literary Criticism."  Marxism and African Literature.  Ed. George M. Gugelberger.  London: James Currey, 1985.  1-21.
    • Hallen, Barry.  "African Aesthetics."  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Ed. E. Craig.  London: Routledge, 1998.
    • Harrow, Kenneth.  "A Formal Approach to African Literature."  Research in African Literatures 21 (1990): 79-89.

    • Izevbaye, D. S.  "Shifting Bases: the Present Practice of African Criticism."  Research in African Literatures 21.1 (1990): 127-136.

    • Izevbaye, D. S.  "Criticism and Literature in Africa."  Perspectives on African Literature.  Ed. Christopher Heywood.  London: Heinemann, .  25-30.

    • Jeyifo, Biodun.  "The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonisation and Critical Theory."  Research in African Literatures 21.1 (1990): 33-48. 

    • Jeyifo, Biodun.  "On Eurocentric Critical Theory: Some Paradigms from the Texts and Sub-Texts of of Postcolonial Writing."  After Europe.  Ed. Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin.  Mundelstrup: Dangaroo, 1989.  107-118.

    • Jeyifo, Biodun.  "Tragedy, History and Ideology."  Marxism and African Literature.  Ed. George M. Gugelberger.  London: James Currey, 1985.  94-109.

    • Miller, Christopher L.  "Literary Studies and African Literature: the Challenge of Intercultural Literacy."  Africa and the Disciplines: the Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and the Humanities.  Ed. Robert H. Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Jean O'Barr. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.   213-232.
    • Miller, Christopher L.  "Nationalism as Resistance and Resistance to Nationalism in the Literature of Francophone Africa."  Post / Colonial Conditions.  Yale French Studies 82 (1993): 62-100.
    • Miller, Christopher L.  Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
    • Miller, Christopher L.  Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

    • Olaniyan, Tejumola, and Ato Quayson, eds.  African Literature: an Anthology of Criticism and Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

    • Onoge, Omafume F.  "The Crisis of Consciousness in Modern African Literature."  Marxism and African Literature.  Ed. George M. Gugelberger.  London: James Currey, 1985.  21-49.

    • Onoge, Omafume F.  "Towards a Marxist Sociology of African Literature."  Marxism and African Literature.  Ed. George M. Gugelberger.  London: James Currey, 1985.  50-63.

    • Onyewuenyi, Innocent Chilaka.  "Traditional African Aesthetics: a Philosophical Perspective."  International Philosophical Quarterly (1984): 237-244.  Rpt. in African Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Albert G. Mosley.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.  421-427.

    • Quayson, Ato.  Calibrations: Reading for the Social.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003.
    • Quayson, Ato.  Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice, or Process?.  Cambridge: Polity, 2000.
       

On-Line:

• Hallen, Barry: Ethical Knowledge in an African Philosophy Florida Philosophical Review 3.1 (2003)

• Edwards, Brent Hayes: The Uses of Diaspora Social Text 19.1 (2001): .

• Ndaba, W. J.: The Challenge of African Philosophy: a Reply to Mabogo More.  Alternation 6.1 (1999)

• Presbey, Gail:  Who Counts as a Sage? Problems in the Further Implementation of Sage Philosophy (20th World Congress on Philosophy, Boston, 1998)

• Taiwo, Olufemi: Exorcising Hegel's Ghost: Africa's Challenge to Philosophy African Studies Quarterly 1.4 (1998)

• Williams, Al-Yasha: On the Subject of Kings and Queens: 'Traditional' African Leadership and the Diasporal Imagination

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds.  AFRICANA: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.  New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, ed.  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
  • Fortes, Meyer, and G. Dieterlen, eds.  African Systems of Thought.  Oxford: OUP, 1965.
  • Karp, Ivan, and C. S. Bird, eds.  Explorations in African Systems of Thought.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
  • Karp, Ivan, and D. A. Masolo, eds.  African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000.  
  • Wiredu, Kwasi, ed.  A Companion to African Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Appiah, Kwame Anthony.  "African Philosophy."  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Ed. E. Craig.  London: Routledge, 1998. 
  • Bell, Richard H.  "Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: an Exercise in Cross-Cultural Philosophy."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  197-220.
  • Bernasconi, Robert.  "African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  185-196.
  • Diop, Irele.  In the Tracks of the African Predicament: Philosophy and Contemporary Socio-Economic and Political Problems of Africa.  Ibadan: Options Book and Information Services, 1993.
  • Hallen, Barry.  African Philosophy: the Analytic Approach.  Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006.
  • Hallen, Barry.  A Short History of African Philosophy.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002.
  • van Hensbroek, Pieter Boele.   African Political Philosophy, 1860-1995: an Inquiry into Three Families of Discourse.  Groningen: Universiteitsdrukkerij, 1998.
  • van Hook, Jay M.  "African Philosophy and the Universalist Thesis."  Metaphilosophy 28.4 (1997): 385-396.
  • Ikuenobe, Polycarp.  Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. 
  • Imbo, Samuel Oluoch.  Oral Traditions as Philosophy: Okot p'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Imbo, Samuel Oluoch.  African Philosophy: an Introduction.  Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Irele, F. Abiola.  "African Philosophy, Francophone."  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Ed. Edward Craig.  London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Janz, Bruce.  "Philosophy as if Place Mattered: the Situation of African Philosophy."  What Philosophy Is: Contemporary Philosophy in Action.  Ed. havi Carel and David Gamez.  London: Continuum, 2004.  103-115.
  • Jahn, Janheinz.  Muntu: an Outline of the New African Culture.  New York: Grove, 1961.
  • Janz, Bruce.  "Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. 21-238.
  • Jones, George.  Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy.  1954.
  • July, Robert W.  The Origins of Modern African Thought: its Development in West Africa during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  London: Faber and Faber, 1968.  Rpt. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2004.
  • Kamulu, Chukwunyere.  Foundation of African Thought.  Chicago: Karnak House, 1995.
  • Karp, Ivan, and D. A. Masolo.  "Ethnophilosophy: African."  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Ed. Edward Craig.  London: Routledge, 1998.  446-450.
  • Kebede, Messay.  Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
  • Lefkowitz, Mary.  History Lesson: a Race Odyssey.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
  • Maurier, Henri.  Philosophie de l"Afrique noire.  Bonn: Berlag St. Augustin, 1976.
  • Odora Hoppers, Catherine A.  Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Towards a Philosophy of Articulation.  New Africa Education, 2002.
  • Outlaw, Lucius.  "'African Philosophy'?  Deconstructive and Reconstructive Challenges."  On Race and Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1996.
  • Outlaw, Lucius.  "African, African American and Africana Philosophy."  Philosophical Forum 24.1-3 (1992-1993): 63-93.  Rpt. in African American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions.  Ed. John Pittman.  London: Routledge, 1997.
  • Pearce, Carole.  "African Philosophy and the Sociological Thesis."  Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22.4 (1992): 44-460.
  • Praeg, Leonhard.  African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy: a Philosophical Investigation.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

  • Presbey, Gail, Daniel Smith, Pamela Abuja, and Oriole Narrate, Oriole, eds.  Thought and Practice in African Philosophy.  2002.

  • Rabaka, Reiland.  Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition from W. E. B. Du Bois to Amilcar Cabral.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2009.
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  • Sartre, Jean-Paul.  "Orphée noir."  Situations III.  Paris: Gallimard, 1949.
  • Shutte, Augustine.  Philosophy for Africa.  Rondebosch : UCT Press, 1993.
  • Sumner, Claude.  Classical Ethiopian Philosophy.  Los Angeles: Adey, 1994.
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On-Line:

• Basu, Ananyo: African Philosophy and Multicultural Thought

• Emagalit, Zeverin: Contemporary African Philosophy

• Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi: African Philosophy at the Turn of the Millennium (interviewed by Rick Lewis, Polylog)

• Hallen, Barry: African Philosophy Bibliography

• Imbo, Samuel:  African Philosophy in 1997

• Janz, Bruce: Central Issues in African Philosophy

• Janz, Bruce: Debt and Duty Kant, Derrida, and African Philosophy Special Issue: George Washington University 6th Annual Human Sciences Conference.  Janus Head (2001)

• Janz, Bruce: Selected Important Texts in African Philosophy

• King, Peter: Some Suggested Reading

• Masolo, D. A.: African Sage Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Mosley, Albert: African Philosophy at the Turn of the Century

• Paideia: Philosophy in Africa (papers presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998)

• Presbey, Gail: Syllabus for an African Philosophy and Culture Course

• Smet, A. J.: Bibliographie de la philosophie africaine

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: African Philosophy

• Wingo, Ajume: Akan Philosophy of the Person (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Multinational:

• Brown University, University of Cape Town, and University of the West Indies: African and African Diasporic Knowledges

Algeria:

• Université d'Algers: Département de Philosophie

Burkina Faso:

• Université de Ouagadougou: Département de Philosophie et Psychologie

Congo, Democratic Republic of:

• Compagnie de Jésus en Afrique Centrale: Faculté de Philosophie Saint Pierre Canisius de Kimwenza

Ghana:

• University of Ghana: 
  • Institute of African Studies
  • Department of Philosophy

Kenya:

• Catholic University of East Africa: Department of Philosophy
• Kenyatta University: Department of Philosophy
• Maryknoll Institute of African Studies
• Moi University: Department of Philosophy (no link provided)
• University of Nairobi: 
  • Institute of African Studies
  • Department of Philosophy (no link provided)

Lesotho:

• National University of Lesotho: Department of Philosophy

Libya:

• Garyounis University: Department of Philosophy

• University of Malawi: Department of Philosophy

Mauritania:

• Université de Nouakchott: Département de Philosophie et Sociologie

Morocco:

• Université Mohamed V: Département de Philosophie, Psychologie et Sociologie

Nigeria:

• Obafemi Awolowo University: Department of Philosophy (no link provided)
• University of Ibadan: Department of Philosophy

• Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar:
  • Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noir Cheikh Anta Diop (no link provided)
  • Département de Philosophie

• University of Sierra Leone, Fourrah Bay College: Philosophy / Classics

South Africa:

• University of Cape Town: 

  • Centre for African Studies

  • Department of Philosophy
• University of the Free State: Department of Philosophy
• University of Kwazulu-Natal: 
  • Durban: Department of Philosophy
  • Pietermaritzburg: Philosophy Programme
• North-West University, Potchefstroom (formerly Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education): School of Philosophy
• University of Pretoria: Department of Philosophy
• Rand Afrikaans University: Department of Philosophy
• Rhodes University: Department of Philosophy
• University of South Africa (UNISA): Department of Political Science and Philosophy: Philosophy Programme
• Stellenbosch University: Department of Philosophy
• University of the Transkei: Philosophy and Religious Studies (no link provided)
• University of the Witwatersrand: Department of Philosophy
• University of Zululand: Department of Philosophy

Sudan:

• University of Khartoum: Department of Philosophy

Tanzania:

• University of Dar es Salaam: Department of Political Science: Philosophy Unit

Togo:

• Université du Benin: Département de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales Appliquée

Uganda:

• Makerere University: Department of Philosophy

Zambia: 

• University of Zambia: Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics

• University of Zimbabwe: Department of Religious Studies, Classics, and Philosophy

Elsewhere:

• India:

  • University of Mumbai: Centre for African Studies

• Caribbean:

  • University of the West Indies, Mona: BA in African Studies

• Europe:

  • Belgium:

    • Université Libre de Bruxelles: Centre of African Studies

  • Germany:

    • Goethe Univesitat: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung (ZIAF)

  • Netherlands:

    • University of Leiden: Afrika Studiecentrum

  • Poland:

    • University of Warsaw: Department of African Languages and Cultures

  • UK:

    • University of Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies
    • University of Cambridge: Centre of African Studies

WWW GATEWAYS

• E-mail Lists:

  • Afri-Phil E-mail List

  • Tank-L South African Philosophy List-Server

• African Philosophers' Platform

• AfricAvenir African Philosophy Links

• Asouzu, Innocent: Complementary Reflection, African Philosophy and General Issues in Philosophy

• Janz, Bruce: African Philosophy Resources

• Leiden University: African Studies Centre: African Philosophy

• Marxists.Org: Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa

• Philosophy Born of Struggle: Africana Philosophy for the Internet

I am very grateful for the assistance provided by Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo in the compilation of this page.
 

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