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Race Ideology and the Conceptualization of Philosophy: The Story of Philosophy in Africa from Placide Tempels to Odera Oruka [PDF]

, 2013
Philosophy in Africa has come a long way. From the 18th and 19th centuries when it was totally ignored or denied altogether, to when it was given a lower status by ethnophilosophers. Today we talk proudly of an African philosophy. What is often forgotten
Owakah, F E A
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Jumpstarting Ethno-Philosophy in Context: Ethics Discourse on Gawis ya Ngawi

Religion and Social Communication
Ethnicity relates to the descriptive evaluation of culture, and when examined through a philosophical lens, it becomes ethno-philosophy. Any attempt to understand the complexities of human existence is an ongoing endeavor.
Dennis M. Placido
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African Philosophy and the Method of Ordinary Language Philosophy [PDF]

, 2008
One of the vibrant topics of debate among African and non-African scholars in the 20th and 21st centuries centered on the existence of African philosophy. This debate has been described as unnecessary.
Gbenga, Fasiku
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The Mistranslation of the ABCs: An American AIDS Education Campaign in Botswana [PDF]

, 2013
The majority of Botswana citizens have access to national HIV/AIDS education, but the messages ignore native cultural practices. The purpose of this paper is to critique the influence of American humanism and individualism on the ABC model of HIV/AIDS ...
Casbarro, Liana, Jäger, Jemlys
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The Constitutional Court and ubuntu’s “inseparable trinity” [PDF]

, 2009
The purpose of this article is to deconstruct the Constitutional Court’s definitions of ubuntu as humanness, group solidarity, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, personhood and a moral philosophy.
Keevy, I.
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An Investigation of Obligatory Anthropoholism as Plausible African Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2019
African ontological discourse revolves around a few principles, the interrelatedness of being, what is variously interpreted as communalism, ubuntu, Holism, communitarianism etc.
Ifeakor, Chinedu S.
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Marcien Towa, father of Cameroonian Critical Theory: a comparison with Max Horkheimer [PDF]

, 2023
In this paper, I examine the extent to which Marcien Towa (1931-2014) can be considered the Father of Cameroonian Critical Theory. In this regard, I compare what can be called his social philosophy with the project of a critical theory of society, as ...
Bitang, Adoulou
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Extraversion, Scientific Dependency and the Democratisation of Knowledge

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO
Paulin Hountondji is best known for his (in)famous critique of African philosophy as ethnophilosophy. However, while his criticism of African Philosophy has generated much debate, his analysis and critique of extraversion and scientific dependency, the ...
Victoria Openif’Oluwa AKOLEOWO
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A Phenomenological Approach to the Korean "We": A Study in Social Intentionality [PDF]

, 2017
This paper explores the phenomenological concept “we” based on a pre-existing understanding of traditional phenomenology alongside a new aspect of the concept by introducing an analysis of “we” in Korean.
Kim, Hye Young
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Hountondji, Unanimism, and the Possibility of a Communal Mind

Arụmarụka
What is wrong with unanimism? And relatedly, we can ask: What is wrong with a communal mind? Both questions, I think, form the fulcrum of many years of Paulin Jidenu Hountondji’s work and his criticism of ethnophilosophy.
Edwin ETIEYIBO
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