History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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.

HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere

The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.

HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology

After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.

HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement

African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, and Sonia Sanchez.