HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy
March 17, 2019
Paulin Hountondji and other African philosophers criticize ethnophilosophy and advocate a universalist approach.
HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition
March 3, 2019
An interview with Nkiru Nzegwu on matriarchy and gender fluidity in Africa.
HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition
February 17, 2019
What archeology and ethnography tell us about the diverse and often ambiguous roles of men and women in traditional African societies.
HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
February 3, 2019
Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.
HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics
January 20, 2019
Emphasis on the value of community as a major theme in African philosophy.
HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person
January 6, 2019
Traditional African ideas about personhood, which challenge assumptions about the relation between mind and body, self and other.
HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy
December 23, 2018
Is traditional African religion in some sense monotheist, despite the worship of many divinities?
HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time
December 9, 2018
John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a present, and virtually no future.”
HAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p’Bitek and Oral Traditions
November 25, 2018
A conversation with Sam Imbo on approaching oral traditions as philosophy and the Ugandan thinker and poet Okot p'Bitek.
HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa
November 11, 2018
An introduction to the “ethnophilosophy” approach inaugurated by Placide Tempels, its promises and potential pitfalls.
