An Introduction to African Philosophy

Abstract

This essay is the work of an African currently teaching philosophy in the United States. It bears the marks not only of the discussions on African philosophy in America but also of a comparative approach adopted by the author, which involves Africans, African-Americans, non-Africans, and even feminists. The book is divided in three sections: the first deals with the classical problem of the existence and nature of African philosophy, the second deals with ethnophilosophy and its critics and the third addresses the status of African philosophy in a global context.