African Philosophy - Emancipation and Practice

List of contents

Introduction
1. Mapping the Terrain
2. African Self-Apprehension
3. Philosophy and Intercultural Dialogue
4. Recentering Africa: The Unfinished Promise of Decolonisation
5. Africa in World Philosophies: Emerging Realities
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Pascah Mungwini is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa, South Africa.

Summary

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023

Caught between the history of exclusion and the reality of the world philosophies approach, this is an introduction to African philosophy unlike any other.

With distinctive insight Pascah Mungwini brings together African philosophy and the emancipative mission, introducing African thought as a practice defined by its own history and priority questions while always in dialogue with the world. He charts the controversies and contestations around the contemporary practice of philosophy as an academic enterprise in Africa, examining some of philosophy’s most serious mistakes, omissions, and failures.

Covering the history of African philosophy's development and trajectory, Mungwini’s introduction focuses on the struggle for intellectual liberation. His compelling portrayal reveals that true liberation begins by understanding one’s own world, an essential point for anyone beginning to explore another philosophical tradition on its own terms.

Foreword

An introduction to African philosophy told through the story of the struggle for intellectual liberation.

Additional text

Mungwini provides a compelling and lucid account of contemporary African philosophy, highlighting the continuing struggles to overcome colonialist and racist structures and assumptions, and the myriad conversations it has and can have with other established and emerging world philosophies.

Product details

• Authors: Pascah Mungwini
• Assisted by: James Madaio (Editor), Georgina Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781350196490
• ISBN: 978-1-350-19649-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to Wo; Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Colonialism and imperialism, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Non-Western philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, National liberation and independence, African philosophy