Author: J. T. MilimoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Bantu Wisdom
Author: J. T. MilimoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Kongo Proverbs and the Origins of Bantu Wisdom
Author: Mukumbuta LisimbaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Author: D A MasoloPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470777
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Bantu Philosophy
Author: Placide TempelsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884631092
Category : Philosophy, Bantu
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Encyclopedia of African Religion
Author: Molefi Kete AsantePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412936365
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Sage Philosophy
Author: Henry Odera OrukaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004452265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.
An Introduction to African Philosophy
Author: Sam O. ImboPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461636507
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Organized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions of African philosophy? Is ethno-philosophy really philosophy? What are the dangers of an African philosophy that claims to be 'unique'? Can African philosophy be done in foreign languages such as English and French? Are there useful ways to make connections between African philosophy, African American philosophy, and women's studies? By making cross-disciplinary and transnational connections, Imbo stakes out an important place for African philosophy. Imbo's book is an invaluable introduction to this dynamic and growing area of study.
Transcendent Development
Author: Andani ThakhathiPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1802622594
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Transcendent Development contains morally courageous, creative storytelling prose offering paradigm shifts, empirical evidence and surprising “antenarratives” that explain how a harmonious Africa may be realised, starting in the Mother Continent’s Southern-most tip.
African Theology as Liberating Wisdom
Author: Mari-Anna PöntinenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004245952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this church. These interpretations draw from the Tswana tradition and liberation in Christ.
A Discourse on African Philosophy
Author: Christian B. N. GadePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498512267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes this view in a way that not only provides new findings and reflections on ubuntu and the TRC, but also contributes to the field of African philosophy. One of Christian B. N. Gade’s key findings, founded on qualitative interviews in South Africa, is that some former TRC commissioners and committee members question the importance of ubuntu in the TRC process. Another is that there are several differing and historically developing interpretations of ubuntu, some of which have evident political implications and reflect non-factual and creative uses of history. Thus ubuntu is not a shared cultural heritage, in the ethnophilosophical sense of a static property characterizing a group. In fact, throughout this book Gade argues that the ethnophilosophical approach to African philosophy as a static group property is highly problematic. Gade’s research presents an alternative collective discourse on African philosophy (“collective” in the sense that it does not focus on any single individual in particular) that takes differences, historical developments, and social contexts seriously. This book will be of interest to scholars in African philosophy, transitional justice, politics and cultural heritage, and law in South Africa.