Author Imbo, Samuel Oluoch, 1961- author.

Title An introduction to African philosophy / Samuel Oluoch Imbo.

Pub Info Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1998] ©1998

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	How Is African Philosophy to Be Defined?					3
		What Is Philosophy?				3
		Ethnophilosophical Approaches				8
		Universalist Definitions of African Philosophy				17
		Hermeneutical Orientations				27
		Various Classifications of African Philosophy				34
		Politics of Defining African Philosophy				43
Ch. 2	Is Ethnophilosophy Really Philosophy?					53
		Cheikh Anta Diop: An Afrocentric Historiography				56
		John S. Mbiti: A Religious Ethnography				60
		Ogotemmeli's Cosmology				64
		Critics of Ethnophilosophy				68
Ch. 3	Is African Philosophy Unique?					75
		Uniqueness as Negative: Placide Tempels Revisited				77
		Uniqueness as Positive: Leopold Sedar Senghor				81
		Dangers of Uniqueness: Paulin Hountondji				85
		Africa in the House of Philosophy: Kwame Anthony Appiah				88
Ch. 4	What Should the Language(s) of African Philosophy Be?					97
		Language as Collective Memory Bank				99
		Written Language and Oral Language				103
		In Defense of African Languages: Ngugi wa Thiong'o				110
		In Defense of European Languages: Chinua Achebe				116
Ch. 5	Are There Connections Among African, African American, and Feminist Philosophies?					123
		Connections with African American Philosophy: A Tradition Born Out of Struggle				126
		Connections with Feminism: Feminist Critiques of Western Philosophy				133
	Conclusion					143
	References					147
	Index					155
	About the Author					158

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