Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What is African Philosophy? -- African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today -- Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa -- African, African American, Africana Philosophy -- The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy -- Contemporary Moslem Philosophies in North Africa -- Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity -- The Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception -- "Chi" in Igbo Cosmology -- The Sociality of Self -- Philosophy, Politics, and Society -- Leaders must not be Masters -- Consciencism -- Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy -- Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle -- Black Revolution -- Human Rights, Civil Rights -- Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective -- Ethics -- "Mutumin Kirki": The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa -- Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community, and the Moral Order -- Concerning Violence -- Morals and the Value of Human Life -- Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning -- On Knowledge and Science -- Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture I, Culture II -- "Divination": A Way of Knowing? -- The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa -- The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language -- African Traditional Thought and Western Science -- How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought -- Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge -- Philosophy and Colonial Encounter -- Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism -- Discourse on Colonialism -- The Wretched of the Earth -- Colonialism and the Colonized: Violence and Counter-Violence -- Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period -- National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source) -- Philosophy and Race -- The Conservation of Races -- The Illusions of Race -- Du Bois on the Invention of Race -- Racism and Culture -- Racism and Feminism -- Philosophy and Gender -- The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives -- Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory -- Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images -- The Erasure of Black Women -- The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African Moralities -- Philosophy and Transatlantic African Slavery -- The Nature of Slavery -- The Concept of Slavery -- The Origin of Negro Slavery -- The Interesting Narrative. -- Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery -- Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave -- Ontology and the Nature of Art -- Breath -- Bantu Ontology -- The Igbo World and Its Art -- The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy -- The Duke's Blues -- Philosophy of Religion -- God, Faith, and the Nature of Knowledge -- Must God Remain Greek? -- The Problem of Evil: An Akan Perspective -- Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. I. II. 13. Pt. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Pt. V. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Pt. VI. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Pt. VII. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Pt. VIII. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. Pt. IX. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. Pt. X. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Pt. XI. 53. 54. 55. 56.