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Making room for more games: metaphilosophical typology and the problem of African philosophy

Acta Academica, 2009
The question concerning the philosophy of philosophy (metaphilosophy) has received little attention in philosophical discourses in the last few decades, a case in point being the debate on African philosophy.
J. C. van der Merwe
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What is African Philosophy?

Ars & Humanitas, 2018
The article focuses on the concept of African philosophy. I enter the discussion with some of the earliest texts that we can classify both as philosophical and of African origin. I proceed with an overview of four approaches to philosophising in Africa,
Tadej Pirc
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The problem of language in contemporary African philosophy: some comments

Inkanyiso, 2013
A critical discussion of the contentious problem of language in contemporary African philosophy is attempted in this paper. The problem centres on whether or not African languages can be used in ‘doing’ contemporary African philosophy, where ‘doing ...
Fayemi A. Kazeem
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Decolonisation of African philosophy: Regular – abstraction or scientific thinking?

Inkanyiso
It is this article’s projection to think decolonised as an African (as my own Gestimmheid is from Africa), with Okolo’s proposition that African philosophy appeared only from the African-European connection. Okolo, was what can be point to, as utterances
Johan A. van Rooyen
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The Postcolonial Heart of African Philosophy

, 2008
This piece is one of among a handful that seek in the first instance to reveal the origin of African philosophy as an academic discipline, the source of its unity and distinctiveness.
Tabensky, Pedro, Pedro Alexis Tabensky, Tabensky, PA   +2 more
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Obiora Ike and the Challenge of Development in Africa

Journal of Ethics in Higher Education, 2022
African philosophers such as Olusegun Oladipo, Lansana Kieta, Kwama Nkrumah and Kanu Ikechukwu proposed to revisit the semantic of the word “development”.
Gregory Ebalu Ogbenika
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Philosophy in Black: African Philosophy as a Negritude

Sartre Studies International, 2011
African philosophy, as a negritude, is a moment in the postcolonial critique of European/Western colonialism and the bodies of knowledge which sustained it. Yet a critical analysis of its’ original articulations reveals the limits of this critique and more broadly of postcolonial studies, while also pointing towards more radical theoretical ...
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Hermeneutics in African philosophy

, 2017
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the hermeneutic in the ongoing discourse on methodology in African philosophy. The diverse understanding of hermeneutics is not only limited to Western philosophy; in the few decades of its history in African ...
Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem
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Tracing Matolino’s Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy

Arụmarụka, 2022
Bernard Matolino is one of the outstanding philosophers who left an indelible mark on the development of African philosophy. In his philosophical works, Matolino has mainly focused on the idea of personhood in African philosophy, a critique of (African ...
Simon MAKWINJA
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On the relevance of an African Philosophy of Higher Education

South African Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Nowadays, higher educational theory seems to be concerned with positional thinking that reconsiders what universities ought to accomplish to justify their existence in the realm of higher education (Waghid and Davids, 2020).
Waghid, Y.
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