What to expect when you're expecting Africana philosophy

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I’m intrigued as to what exactly is meant by ‘African Philosophy’. Subsahran Africa as a cohesive space with some sense of shared identity is, by en large, a product of the European colonialism. It’s impossible to say that there existed a single regime of ideas that thinkers and philosophers across the African content drew on nor a set of shared language or technical vocabulary  in which philosophy was done. A thinker in Kongo probably had little to do with a scholar in West Africa. While even labels like Western philosophy or Islamic philosophy can at times serve to muddy the waters, we can at least say that literate elites  in the ‘Islamic world’ would have been at least passingly familiar with a set of canonical figures, Avicenna for example, and would have generally relied on a shared philosophical vocabulary regardless of which literary language they chose to express themselves in. Instead of African philosophy, it might be more useful to speak in terms of African philosophies, separate heterogeneous traditions of intellectual thinking going on often with little contact with each other in various parts of the continent. I’m not an expert so I have no say here, but I’m wondering exactly what you mean by African philosophy and for that matter how you deal with the issue that a considerable amount of Islamic and ‘Greek’ philosophy was done in North Africa, the Maghreb and West Africa. And how will you deal with the religion-philosophy distinction? Though I personally find this separation pointless and less practical that it initially seems, it often leads to a lot of philosophical material being rejected out of hand as in fact religion and not within the scope of the historian of philosophy. This can have serious repercussions in the study of non-western philosophical cultures, as we’ve seen with the rejection of Sufism as silly mysticism and not real philosophy, and is especially problematic in an area as understudied as subsaharan Africa. 

In any other person's hands I would be nervous, but Dr. Adamson's previous work speaks for itself. So excited for this series!