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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa
October 28, 2018
Peter speaks to Souleymane Bachir Diagne about Islamic scholars in West Africa.
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HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate
October 14, 2018
Uthman Dan Fodio and his family were scholars, poets, and warriors whose jihad in 19th century Nigeria created the Sokoto Caliphate.
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