The Blackwell Companion to African Philosophy.pdf

A Companion to

African Philosophy

Edited by

Kwasi Wiredu

Advisory editors:

William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele,

and

Ifeanyi A. Menkiti

A Companion to African Philosophy

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

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28 A Companion to African Philosophy

Edited by Kwasi Wiredu

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A companion to African philosophy / edited by Kwasi Wiredu.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-631-20751-1 (alk. paper)

1. Philosophy, African. I. Wiredu, Kwasi.

B5305.C66 2004

199’.6—dc21

2003005561

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

xix

Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time

Part I HISTORY

1 Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy

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

149

MABOGO P. MORE

8 Philosophy in North Africa

161

MOURAD WAHBA

9 The Light and the Shadow:

Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat:

Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century

172

CLAUDE SUMNER

TH ´ OPHILE OBENGA

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