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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HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy
September 30, 2018
The spread of Islamic scholarship in subsaharan Africa, focusing on intellectuals of the Songhay empire around the Niger River in the 15th-17th centuries.
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HAP 11 - Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy
September 16, 2018
Teodros Kiros discusses the history of Ethiopian thought and how it has influenced his own work in political philosophy.
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HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat
September 2, 2018
Walda Heywat’s reaction to the thought of his teacher Zera Yacob, and the dispute over the authenticity of these two Ethiopian philosophers.
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HAP 09 - In You I Take Shelter - Zera Yacob
July 22, 2018
The 17th century Ethiopian rationalist Zera Yacob, hailed as the first modern Africana philosopher.
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HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy
July 8, 2018
Philosophy in Ethiopia, with translations of religious and philosophical texts into Ge’ez and a national epic called the Kebra Nagast.
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