Devotees of the popular series “Game of Thrones” may recall Jaime Lannister’s fatal, but memorable, quip: “The things we do for love”. He said this just before hurling a ten-year-old boy down a high ...

African philosophy is generally overlooked in the field of philosophy. The reasons for that are unclear. Some argue that it may be because African philosophy is closely tied to its oral traditions, ...

To understand what an African philosophy of education is and why it's so important, consider the role that universities should play in any society. Universities, no matter where they are, ought to be ...

In this seminal exploration of the nature and future of African philosophy, Paulin J. Hountondji attacks a myth popularized by ethnophilosophers such as Placide Tempels and Alexis Kagame that there is ...

Kwasi Wiredu, often called the greatest living African philosopher, died on January 6 in the US at the age of 90. Wiredu was a central presence in the discipline by virtue of two highly influential ...

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(RNS) — John Samuel Mbiti, longtime professor of ecumenism and mission at the University of Bern and an ordained priest in the Anglican Communion, died recently. In every generation there rises a ...

The central task of political philosophy is to specify a set of values to envisage a good society. But, as much of the philosophical work on social justice has emerged from the Global North, the ...

He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life. By Adam Nossiter Paulin Hountondji, a ...