Select Issues and Controversies in Contemporary African Philosophy

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74:109-122 (2014)
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African philosophy today is a complicated and dynamic discipline. This presentation will concentrate on two topics that are currently of special interest. One concerns the meaning of the term when it is used to express a defining characteristic of Africa's cultures. The other concerns the reactions on the part of African philosophers and scholars to the movement that has come to be known in Western academia and culture as.

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Barry Hallen
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