Atụọlụ Ọmalụ: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy

Jonathan O. Chimakonam

University Press of America, 2015 - History - 315 pages

Dating and periodization questions in African philosophy / Jonathan O. Chimakonam -- The question of being in African philosophy : a case for Ibuanyidanda ontology / Innocent I. Asouzu -- The question of moral paradigm in African philosophy : a case for communocentric ethics / Mulumba I. Obiajulu -- The knowledge question in African philosophy : a case for cogno-normative (complementary) epistemology / Jonathan O. Chimakonam -- The logic question in African philosophy : between the horns of irredentism and jingoism / Uduma O. Uduma -- The criteria question in African philosophy : escape from the horns of jingoism and afrocentrism / Johathan O. Chimakonam -- The ideology question in African philosophy : a case for tradition and the quest for democracy in Africa / Olusegum Oladipo -- African philosophy : some basic questions / Bruce B. Janz -- The question of cultural imperialism in African philosophy / Edwin Etieyibo -- The transliteration question in African philosophy / Godfrey O. Ozumba -- The question of culture of philosophy in Africa / Adebayo A. Aina and Olatunji A. Oyeshile -- The question of conceptual decolonizaon in African philosophy and the problem of the language of African philosophy : a critique of Kwasi Wierdu and a proposal for conceptual Mandelanization in the Africa we know / Mesembe I. Edet -- The question of the West and the rest of us in African philosophy / Joseph N. Agbo -- The future question in African philosophy / Ada Agada

About the author

Jonathan O. Chimakonam, PhD, teaches at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He specializes in logic and African philosophy and has published vastly on such topics. He is the author ofIntroducing African Science (2012), the producing author ofExistence and Consolation (2015), and a co-author ofNjikoka Amaka (2014).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Atụọlụ Ọmalụ: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy
• Editor: Jonathan O. Chimakonam
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University Press of America, 2015
• ISBN: 0761864547, 9780761864547
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: History / Africa / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / General