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An essay concerning the foundational myth of ethnophilosophy [PDF]

Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 2016
Ethnophilosophy, although glorified by some African philosophers, remains a problem in our undertakings in African philosophy. In its infancy, the problem revolved around the call for a total decolonization of African thought and philosophy, which eventually led to the proliferation of a vast array of mostly descriptive  literature about the cultural ...
Attoe, Aribiah David
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Adat and Religious Tolerance: Ethnophilosophy Perspective

Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
As a country with the largest Muslims population in the world, Indonesia has an overwhelming number of communities with different religions, such as Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Confucianism and other local religions from ancestors that influence various Indonesian people's beliefs.
Tambunan, Sihol Farida
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La etnofilosofía como una nueva forma de pensar y hacer filosofía desde la interculturalidad / Ethnophilosophy as a new way of thinking and doing philosophy from interculturality [PDF]

, 2021
En este artículo se realiza una aproximación a la etnofilosofíacon la intención de revelar la particular dimensión que se aprecia alestudiarla como una nueva forma de pensar y hacer filosofía desde lainterculturalidad.
Chaveco Asin, Kirenia
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Ethnophilosophy as Decolonization: Revisiting the Question of African Philosophy [PDF]

Ethnophilosophy is widely regarded as a disreputable orientation in African philosophy. For example, critics of ethnophilosophy think of it as a ‘defective philosophy’, a ‘semi-anthropological paraphrase’, a merely ‘implicit philosophy ’, a ‘crazed ...
Irikefe, Paul O.
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Gikuyu Ethnophilosophy from the perspective of Leonardo Polo’s transcendental anthropology [PDF]

, 2015
Conference paperThe purpose of this paper is to see how the Transcendental Anthropology of Leonardo Polo can shed light on the ethnophilosophy of the Gikuyu people.
Njuguna, Caroline
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Césaire’s Contribution to African Philosophy

, 2021
The essay explicates Aimé Césaire’s contribution to the discipline of African philosophy, which ironically, is unknown to many scholars within African philosophy, especially in Anglophone Africa.
Ochieng’-Odhiambo, Frederick
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The African Novel and the Question of Communalism in African Philosophy (Roundtable on Jeanne-Marie Jackson's "The African Novel of Ideas")

, 2023
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.
El Nabolsy, Zeyad
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Review of "Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Universalism" by Franziska Dübgen and Stefan Skupien

, 2020
Franziska Dübgen and Stefan Skupien have written a much needed overview of Paulin Hountondji’s work. While Hountondji is quite well known for his critique of ethnophilosophy, his later intellectual work on scientific dependency and his political writings
El Nabolsy, Zeyad
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African Tradition, Philosophy, and Modernization

, 2006
I examine Wiredu's views that (1) ethnophilosophy cannot be considered a legitimate philosophy because it has the feature of authoritarianism, and that (2) this feature of African tradition will not allow modern philosophy to flourish because it prevents
Ikuenobe, Polycarp
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Francophone African Philosophy: History, trends and influences

, 2018
In this paper, I engage in a critical discussion of Francophone African philosophy focusing on its history, the influences, and emerging trends. Beginning the historical account from the 1920s, I examine the colonial discourses on racialism, and the ...
Pius M. Mosima, Mosima, Pius M.
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