African Philosophy

Contents: The Question of African Philosophy; Do We Have an African Philosophy?; Investigating African Philosophy; The African Philosophical Tradition; The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy; Time in Yoruba Thought; Causal Theory in Akwapim Akan Philosophy; How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought; The Categories of Mtu and The Categories of Aristotle; Person and Community in African Traditional Thought; The Human Person and Immortality in IBO Metaphysics; Akan Concept of a Person; African and Western Philosophy: A Comparative Study; Philosophical Justifications for Contemporary African Social and Political Values and Strategies; A Comparative Analysis of Pan-Africanism.^R