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There is a rich and written history of ancient African philosophy - for example from ancient Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mali (Timbuktutu, Djenne). [1] [11] In general, the ancient Greeks acknowledged their Egyptian forebears, [1] and in the fifth century BCE, the philosopher Isocrates declared that the earliest Greek thinkers traveled to Egypt to seek knowledge; one of them Pythagoras of Samos, who ...
Claude Sumner, SJ (1919–2012) was a Canadian professor of philosophy who worked at Addis Ababa University from 1953. [1] He was best known for his work on Zera Yacob . Sumner died on June 24, 2012, in Montreal , Canada, at the age of 92.
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze // ⓘ (18 January 1963 – 31 December 2007) was a Nigerian philosopher.Eze was a specialist in postcolonial philosophy.He wrote as well as edited influential postcolonial histories of philosophy in Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Paulin J. Hountondji was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, graduating in 1966, and taking his doctorate in 1970 (his thesis was on Edmund Husserl).After two years teaching in Besançon (France), Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo), he accepted a post at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he long taught as Professor of Philosophy.
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion.
Mogobe Ramose's work has been influenced by the political thinking of South African dissident and founder of the Pan Africanist Congress Robert Sobukwe. [4] Ramose has contributed to pan-Africanist thinking and activism, popularised African philosophy, and repeatedly critiqued the persisting view that rationality is the exclusive purview of Western philosophy. [9]
Some of the topics explored by Africana philosophy include pre-Socratic African philosophy and modern-day debates discussing the early history of Western philosophy, post-colonial writing in Africa and the Americas, black resistance to oppression, black existentialism in the United States, and the meaning of "blackness" in the modern world. [1]
African philosophy is philosophy produced by African people, philosophy that presents African worldviews, or philosophy that uses distinct African philosophical methods. African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as metaphysics , epistemology , moral philosophy , and political philosophy .