History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 124 - Double Jeopardy - Black Feminism

1970s black feminists like Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to recognize the unique struggle of the black woman.

HAP 123 - History Teaches Us - Walter Rodney

Another Caribbean thinker, Walter Rodney of Guyana, explores Africana history from a Marxist perspective. 

HAP 122 - A More Human Face - Steve Biko

Famous for his killing at the hands of the Apartheid government in South Africa, Steve Biko was also a deep thinker, who introduced the notion of Black Consciousness.

HAP 121 - No Agreement - Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka

The political and musical revolution of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, and the social critique of his cousin, the playwright Wole Soyinka.

HAP 120 - Redemption Songs - Reggae and Rastafari

How the Rastafari movement grew from trends within Africana philosophy, and then passed into global popular culture in the music of Bob Marley and other reggae artists.

HAP 119 - The Space Race - Afrofuturism

Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic return to claim the pyramids, and Octavia Butler uses science fiction to confront the brutal past of slavery.

HAP 118 - African Survivals - Abdias do Nascimento

Abdias do Nascimento, a leader in Brazilian theater and politics, and his theory of Qilombismo.

HAP 117 - Spear of the Nation - Nelson Mandela and the ANC

The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.

HAP 116 - Olufemi Taiwo and Olufemi Taiwo on Cabral

Two scholars of the same name join us to shed further light on Amílcar Cabral.

HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral, leader of a revolution against colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, rethinks culture and Marxist theory as bases for his struggle.