A companion to African philosophy / edited by Kwasi Wiredu ; advisory editors, William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele, and Ifeanyi A. Menkiti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time -- 1. Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy / Theophile Obenga -- 2. African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era / D. A. Masolo -- 3. Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- 4. Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers / Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek -- 5. Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- 6. Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey / Barry Hallen -- 7. Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid / Mabogo P. More -- 8. Philosophy in North Africa / Mourad Wahba -- 9. The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century / Claude Sumner -- 10. Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy / Teodros Kiros -- 11. Anton Wilhelm Amo / William E. Abraham -- 12. Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind / Kwasi Wiredu -- 13. Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice / Mabogo P. More -- 14. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) / Teodros Kiros -- 15. Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- 16. Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Life and Thought / Liboire Kagabo -- 17. Post-Independence African Political Philosophy / Olufemi Taiwo -- 18. Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy / A. G. A. Bello -- 19. Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future / Kibujjo M. Kalumba -- 20. Logic in the Acholi Language / Victor Ocaya -- 21. Yoruba Moral Epistemology / Barry Hallen -- 22. Ifa': An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions / Olufemi Taiwo -- 23. Toward a Theory of Destiny / Segun Gbadegesin -- 24. On the Normative Conception of a Person / Ifeanyi A. Menkiti -- 25. African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey / Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani -- 26. Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind / Safro Kwame -- 27. Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues / Olusegun Oladipo -- 28. Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion / Samuel O. Imbo -- 29. Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- 30. Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics / Godfrey B. Tangwa -- 31. Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture / John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji -- 32. Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa / Kofi Agawu -- 33. Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality / Nkiru Nzegwu -- 34. The Many-layered Aesthetics of African Art / Ajume H. Wingo -- 35. Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy / Edward Wamala -- 36. Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective / Joe Teffo -- 37. Fellowship Associations as a Foundations for Liberal Democracy in Africa / Ajume H. Wingo -- 38. Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa / George Carew -- 39. Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence / Ali A. Mazrui -- 40. Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison / D. A. Masolo -- 41. Human Rights in the African Context / Francis M. Deng -- 42. The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid / Pieter Duvenage -- 43. The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections / John Murungi -- 44. Knowledge as a Development Issues / Paulin J. Hountondji -- 45. African Philosophy and African Literature / Anthony Kwame Appiah -- 46. Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa / Jean-Godefroy Bidima -- 47. Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender / Nkiru Nzegwu.

"This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages." "The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and politics, among others - as these have occupied the African mind in both communal and individual conceptions. A special feature of the volume is its historical dimension, including a substantial treatment of ancient African philosophy as encountered in ancient Egypt, an extended study of medieval North African thinkers, an enlightening discussion of pre-colonial African philosophy, and a history of African political thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

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