Doing African Philosophy

Elvis Imafidon is a 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.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors PrefaceForeword by Michael Onyebuchi EzePreliminaries: Doing African PhilosophyDoing PhilosophyThe African WayReimagining Identity1. Redefining a Philosophical TraditionThe Dominant Understanding of a Philosophical TraditionContesting Individual AuthorshipContesting TextualityContesting the Politics of Naming and Transgenerational CoherencyContesting Whiteness and LiteracyWhat is a Philosophical Tradition?2. The Orality of African PhilosophyOral Repositories of PhilosophyOrality, Transgenerationality and Epistemic ReliabilityLanguage, Orality and TruthNames and the Philosophy of Human ExistenceOralising Relationality3.Symbolism and African PhilosophyProblematising the Aesthetic Hermeneutical EncounterCreating, Performing and Curating PhilosophySymbolising Ontological CommitmentsSymbolising Individuality in RelationalitySymbolising Knowing and Learning4.The Textuality of African PhilosophyLegaciesResistanceDefenceMirroringDoing5.Trans-textuality and Collaborative StrategiesTrans-textuality and the Crisis of RelevanceAfro-communitarianism as Method toward Ecocentric IntellectualityRelationality, Fluidity and DifferenceCollaborative Research and PedagogiesOn Polemics and Enigmatics6.Contemporaneities and Futures: On Street PhilosophyAcknowledging Contemporaneity: Philosophy in the StreetsJapa, Sapa and the Philosophy of Migration“School na Scam”: Critiquing EducationReimagining FuturesReferencesIndex

'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.'