African Philosophy, Second Edition: Myth and Reality

Notes and references

Notes and references Introduction 1 Cf. Robert July, The Origins ofModern African Thought (Faber 1968). 2 Peter Bodunrin, "The Problems of, and Prescriptions for, an Action Philosophy in Africa', paper delivered at the Colloquium on the Place and Role of the Humanities in Africa 'Today, University of Ghana, Legon, April 1975, p. 5. 3 Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Les fonctions mentales dans les societes inferieures (Paris 1910). 4 Lucien Levy-Bruhl, La mentalitif primitive (Paris 1922; 4th ed., Paris 1960). See also Jean Cazeneuve, IJa mentalite archai"que (Paris 1961). 5 Levy-Bruhl, Les fonctions mentales, pp. 505-6. (My translation.) 6 Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Carnets (Paris 1939). 7 See his article, 'Native self-government', in Foreign Affairs, 1944. 8 Marcel Griaule, Dieu d'eau (Paris: Editions du Chene 1948); Germaine Dieterlen, Essai sur la religion bambara (Paris 1951). 9 This current is represented in the British school of anthropology by the work of Evans-Pritchard and Darryl-Forde. 10 Placide Tempels, Bantu Philosophy, English translation (Paris: Presence Africaine 1959), p. 16. 11 ibid., p. 23. 12 ibid., p. 35. 13 ibid., p. 121. 14 Gerard Leclerc, Anthropologie et colonialisme (Paris 1972), p. 170. 15 Leopold Sedar Senghor, Les Fondements de l'africanite (Paris 1967). 16 Leopold Sedar Senghor, Liberte I (Paris: Seuil 1964). 17 Bergson's Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion and L'Evolution creatrice probably exerted the greatest influence on Senghor's thinking. 18 Janheinz Jahn, in his Muntu, published in an English translation (1961), has helped to popularize Kagame's system. 19 In addition to Nations negres et culture (Paris: Presence Africaine 1954), Diop's other major publications are: L'Afrique noire precoloniale (Paris), L'Unite culturelle de l'Afrique noire (Paris 1959) and Anteriorite des civilisations negres (Paris 1967). Notes and references 185 20 See, in particular, his paper entitled "Existe-t-il une philosophic africaine?' in Claude Sumner (ed.) African Philosophy - Philosophie Africaine (Addis-Ababa 1980). 21 Frantz Fanon, Les Damnes de la terre (Paris 1961)~ p. 164. (My translation .) 22 Stanislas Adotevi, Negritude et negrologues (Paris). 23 Marcien Towa, Essai sur la probLematique philosophique dans ['Afrique actuelle (Yaounde: E~ditions Cle 1971)~ pp. 51-2. 24 ibid., p. 41. 25 Towa, L'Idee d'une philosophie negro-africaine (Yaounde: Editions Cle 1979), p. 112. 26 See Claude Levi-Strauss, Le Totemisme aujourd'hui (Paris 1962) and La Pensee sauvage (Paris 1962). 27 The points summarized here are taken principally from the following: Pathe Diagne, L'Euro-philosophie et La pensee negro-africaine (Dakar 1981); Niamey Koffi, 'l,.'impense de 'I'owa et de Hountondji', in Claude Sumner, African Philosophy; Olabiyi Yai, 'Theorie et pratique en philosophie africaine: misere de la philosophie speculative'~ Presence Africaine, no. 108 (1978). An abridged English version of the last-named article had earlier been published in Second Order, University of Ife, vol. II, no. 2 (1977). 28 See Peter Bodunrin, 'The question of African philosophy', Philosophy, no. 56 (1981); Henry Oruka, 'Four trends in current African philosophy', Kwasi Wiredu, 'What is African philosophy?', both papers presented at the conference referred to in note 2 above; for Wiredu, see also Philosophy and an African CuLture (Cambridge 1980), especially the first four chapters. 29 Paulin Hountondji, 'Occidentalisme, elitisme: reponse' it deux critiques', Recherche, Pedagogie et Culture, Paris, no. 56 (JanuaryMarch 1982). 1 An alienated Hterature 1 Here is a minimal bibliography: W. Abraham, The Mind of Africa (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962); Jean-Calvin Bahoken, Clairieres metaphysiques africaines (Paris: Presence Africaine 1967); Aime Cesaire, Discours sur Ie colonialisme (Paris: Editions Reclame 1950; Several reprints by Presence Africaine); Alioune Diop, "Niam M'Paya ou de la fin que devorent les moyens', preface to P. Tempels, La Philosophie bantoue (Paris: Presence Africaine 1949); Fabien Eboussi-Boulaga, 'Le Bantou problematique', Presence Africaine, no. 66 (1968); Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (Paris: Seuil1952); Frantz Fanon, Les Damnes de La terre (Paris: Maspero 1968); Basile-Juleat Fouda, 'La Philosophie negro-africaine de l'existence' (unpublished doctoral 186 Notes and references thesis, Lille, Faculte des Lettres, 1967); Alexis Kagame, La Philosophie bantou-rwandaise de l'etre (Brussels 1956); Fran~ois-Marie Lufuluabo, Vers une theodicee bantoue (Tournai: Casterman 1962); Fran~ois-Marie Lufuluabo, La Notion luba-bantoue de l'etre (Tournai: Casterman 1964); Vincent Mulago, Un visage africain du christianisme (Paris: Presence Africaine 1965); A. Makarakiza, La Dialectique des Barundi (Brussels 1959); Alassane N'Daw, 'Peut-on parler d'une pensee africaine...