A Short History of African Philosophy

Index

Abarry, Abu S., 110 Abimbola, ’Wande, 11 Abraham, William, 10, 15, 32 Abyssinia, 3, 7–9 African Americans, 66–67 African studies, 45, 48, 85–86, 92, 96, 100– 101, 105 Africana, 4n1 Afro-Caribbean philosophy, 92–95 Afrocentrism, 4, 100 Akan, 15, 24, 27–32, 95 Ake, Claude, 72 alienation, 77–78 Amadiume, I¤, 100–104 Amin, Samir, 69, 72 Amo, Anton Wilhelm, 9–11 analytic philosophy, 15, 21, 26–27, 35–36, 43, 45–46, 48–49, 51, 54–55, 57, 59–61, 70–71 Appiah, K. Anthony, 45–48, 67 Asante, Mole¤ Kete, 110 Awolowo, Obafemi, 44n50 Baluba, 95 Bantu, 13–14 beauty, 39–40 belief, 38–39 Bernal, Martin, 4 Bernasconi, Robert, 67, 70 Black Athena, 4 Blyden, Edward, 93 Bodunrin, Peter, 21, 53, 65 Bourdieu, Pierre, 44 Cabral, Amilcar, 65, 72, 75–76 canon, 66–69 capitalism, 34, 73–74, 81, 86 Cassirer, Ernst, 78 Castoriadis, Cornelius, 65 Césaire, Aimé, 13, 65, 72, 93 Christianity, 33 Clark-Bekederemo, J. P., 11 classless society, 82–83 Coetzee, P. H., 111 colonialism, 10, 15, 22, 34, 61, 64–67, 70, 73– 75, 85, 93, 95–96, 98, 101–102 community, 30, 33, 73 consequences, 6 Coptic Christianity, 7 creole, 93–94 deconstruction, 69–70 democracy, 25, 74, 88 Descartes, René, 10 destiny, 64 development, 47, 52, 87 Dewey, John, 23 Diop, Cheikh Anta, 100–102 divination, 43–44 Dogon, 14–15 Douglass, Frederick, 67 Du Bois, W. E. B., 67 dualism, 10 Egypt, 4, 12, 100–101 Engels, Friedrich, 76 131 Index English, Parker, 111 epistemology, 6, 7 ethnocentrism, 26, 44–45, 70 ethnophilosophy, 50–51, 53, 61 Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 18 existentialism, 58, 67–69 Eze, Emmanuel, 110, 111 facts, 24 Fanon, Frantz, 53, 65, 67, 72, 93 Fashina, Oladipo, 76–79 female husbands, 103–104 feminism, 99, 106¤eldwork, 28¤rsthand experience, 39 folk philosophy, 20, 22, 24–26, 47, 52 Forde, Daryll, 18 forms of life, 40–41 Foucault, Michel, 44 freedom, 80, 84 Freire, Paulo, 72 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 58–64 Garvey, Marcus, 93 Gbadegesin, ’Segun, 32–34 Ge’ez, 8 gender, 95–107 genetics, 27 Gettier counterexamples, 39 Gikuyu, 16n12 Goody, Jack, 11 Gordon, Lewis, 67–69 Greece, 4 Griaule, Marcel, 14–15, 51, 52n56, 53 Gyekye, Kwame, 27–32, 53, 66 Hallen, Barry, 20, 35–40, 53; and Sodipo, 6, 35–39 Harris, Leonard, 69 hatata, 7–9 Hegel, G. W. F., 65 Heidegger, Martin, 58–59, 63, 65 Henry, Paget, 92–95 hermeneutics, 58–67, 70–71 Horton, Robin, 17–20, 33 Hountondji, Paulin, 50–55, 65 humanism, 26, 30–33, 73, 77, 85 Hume, David, 65 Husserl, Edmund, 57–58 Igbo, 62–63, 95, 100–106 Imbo, Samuel Oluoch, 111 indeterminacy, 37–38 intuition, 53n57 Islam, 33 Jahn, Janheinz, 13–15 James, C. L. R., 93 Kagame, Alexis, 14n9, 51 Kalumba, K. M., 111 Kant, Immanuel, 65 Karp, Ivan, 110 Kikamba, 16n12 Kincaid, Jamaica, 93 knowledge, 38–39 Lefkowitz, Mary, 4 Legesse, Asmarom, 91 lineage, 97–98, 106 linguistic philosophy, 15, 16, 22, 36–40, 51n53, 53–55, 59–61, 70–71, 108–109 Maat, 5 Machel, Samora, 72 Makinde, M. Akin, 43–44 male daughters, 103–104 Marx, Karl, 65, 76–77 Marxism, 45, 74–75, 79–80, 86, 88 Masolo, D. A., 108–110 matriarchy, 96, 101–102 Mbiti, John, 15–16, 29, 51, 53 Mbongi (lineage assembly), 88 medicine, 44 Memmi, Albert, 72 Mondlane, Eduardo, 72 moral epistemology, 6–7, 39–40 morality, 28–31, 39–40, 76–77, 80, 101–102 Mosley, Albert, 111 Mudimbe, V. Y., 12, 44–45 multiculturalism, 45–46 myth, 14, 78–79 natural law, 79–82 nature, 20 Negritude, 13, 42 Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 11n7, 53, 92 Nkrumah, Kwame, 53, 65n72, 72–73, 76 Nnobi, 101–104 Nyerere, Julius, 53, 72, 74–76 nzagwalu, 100 Nzegwu, Nkiru, 104–107 Obeah, 93 Obenga, Theophile, 100 Ogotemmeli, 14–15, 51, 52n56 Index 132 Okere, Theophilus, 61–63 Okolo, Okonda, 63–64 opinion, 23–24 oral culture, 39–40 oral literature, 11, 50 ordinary language philosophy, 38, 108–109 Oruka, H. Odera, 52–55 Outlaw, Lucius, 67, 69–70 Oyewumi, Oyeronke, 95–100 Oyo society, 97–99 Padmore, George, 93 Palaver, 88 patriarchy, 96, 101–102 p’Bitek, Okot, 11, 53, 92 phenomenology, 35, 45, 57–61, 64 Pittman, John, 110 positive law, 79–81, 83–84 postcapitalist society, 85 postcolonial, 65 postmodernism, 46 pragmatism, 23 primitive culture...