An introduction to the “ethnophilosophy” approach inaugurated by Placide Tempels, its promises and potential pitfalls.
• P.J. Hountondji, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (Bloomington: 1996).
• O. p’Bitek, “Fr. Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy,” Transition 13 (1964), 15-17.
• P. Tempels, Bantu Philosophy (Paris: 1959).
• A. Kagame, La philosophie Bantu-Rwandaise de l’être (Brussels: 1956).
• K. Kresse, “Towards a Postcolonial Synthesis in African Philosophy: Conceptual Liberation and Reconstructive Self-Evaluation in the Work of Okot p’Bitek,” in O. Oladipo (ed.), The Third Way in African Philosophy (Ibadan: 2002), 215-32.
• K. Wiredu, Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy (Ibadan: 1995).
Web resource on Placide Tempels including French, Dutch, and English versions of his La philosophie Bantou.
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I miss Hiawatha ...
I miss Hiawatha ...
Hiawatha
Have I not mentioned her in a while? Sorry, I'll see if I can get her in soon.
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