Description: Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms African systems of thought as philosophy.
Brief description: Elvis Imafidon is Reader in African Philosophy and Head of the School of History Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London, UK. He is Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.
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