The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy [Hardcover]

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-?-vis the challenge of African development and Africas place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issuesfeminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.   

1. Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization

2. African Philosophy: appraisal of a recurrent problematic

3. Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age

4. A Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, Nkrumah and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Post-Modernity

5. Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji and Mudimbe.

6. Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning

7. Rethinking the History of African Philosophy

8. The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics

9. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy

10. Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?

11. The Geography of African Philosophy

12. Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa

13. An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy

14. Confucianism and African Philosophy

15.Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy

16. Philosophy of Afrocentricity

17. Black Philosophy, African Philosophy, Africana Philosophy: Transnl³Á