African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women

Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, is a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.Louise du Toit Ph.D, is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• Acknowledgements Dedication Preface Introduction 1. Addressing the Epistemic Marginalization of Women in African Philosophy and Building a Culture of Conversations 2. Henry Odera Oruka and the Female Sage: Re-evaluating the Nature of Sagacity 3. Women and Ubuntu: Does Ubuntu Condone the Subordination of Women? 4. African Philosophy, its Questions, the Place and the Role of Women and its Disconnect with its World 5. Dialogues and Alliances: Positions of Women in African Philosophy 6. Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions 7. Human Rights Discourse: Friend or Foe of African Women’s Sexual Freedoms? 8. African Philosophy’s Injustice against Women 9. Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: The Women Perspective 10. Women in the history of African Philosophy and the Imperative of ‘Her-Storical’ Perspective in the Contemporary African Philosophy 11. Buffeted: Developing an Afro Feminist Response to Environmental Questions 12. Ecofeminism in Africa: The Contribution of Wangari Maathai 13. Women in the Kitchen of Philosophy: Re-Asking the Questions of African Philosophy 14. Are Women Marginalized in African Philosophy?