Description: Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms African systems of thought as philosophy.
Brief description: Ann A. Pang-White is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Asian Studies at The University of Scranton, USA. She is the editor of the Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender (2016), editor and translator of The Confucian Four Books for Women (2018), and the author of many articles on Chinese and comparative philosophy as well as ancient and medieval philosophy.
Review Quotes:
"Take this book's title seriously. Imafidon rethinks central questions in African philosophy with skill and insight, and leads us to a way of doing African philosophy that is as useful in the streets as in the classroom. This is a real achievement in philosophically engaged and socially relevant thinking." --Bruce B. Janz ., Professor of Humanities, University of Central Florida, USA
"Elvis Imafidon provides by far the most systematic attempt to date in the African tradition to broaden what counts as philosophy. Retaining the idea that philosophy characteristically involves reasoning, Imafidon maintains--with powerful illustrations pertaining to orality, collectivity, the arts, symbols, and humour--that reasoning can be so much more than a person composing an argumentative text." --Thaddeus Metz, Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa