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    African languages in time and space: a festchrift in honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi.Eno-Abasi Urua, Francis O. Egbokhare & Oluseye Adesola (eds.) - 2020 - Ibadan, Nigeria: Zenith BookHouse.
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    Formulating Modern Thought in African Languages: Some Theoretical Considerations.Kwasi Wiredu - 1992 - In V. Y. Mudimbe, The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987. University of Chicago. pp. 301-332.
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    Onomatopoeia in Some West African Languages.H. T. Peck - 1886 - American Journal of Philology 7 (4):489.
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  4. The Vernacularization of African Languages after Independence.Herbert Chimhundu - 1993 - Diogenes 41 (161):35-42.
    To vernacularize a language is to reduce it to a vernacular. In 1953, UNESCO defined a vernacular as the language of a group that is politically or socially dominated by a group that speaks another language. This paper argues that this domination need not be colonial or racial, and that in fact many postindependence African rulerships are more comfortable in situations that are contrived to ensure that the indigenous languages of their own countries continue to be vernacularized. The (...)
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    Colourful psi¿s sleep furiously: depicting emotional states in some African languages.Gerrit J. Dimmendaal - 2002 - Pragmatics and Cognition 10 (1):57-84.
    This study sets out to investigate the ¿poetry of grammar¿, more specifically the role of the body in figurative speech, in African languages mainly belonging to Nilotic and Bantu. Apprehending the semantics and pragmatics of metaphorical and metonymic expressions in these languages presupposes an interaction between a number of cognitive processes, as argued below. Interestingly, these languages seem to use these strategies involving figurative speech in tandem with alternative strategies involving on-record statements. This multivocality only makes (...)
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    The Best of Both Worlds: Philosophy in African Languages and English Translation.Gail Presbey - 2017 - APA Newsletter on Indigenous Philosophy 16 (2):7-14.
  7. Asian, and african languages; and philosophy.Barbara Abbott - unknown
    This chapter reviews issues surrounding theories of reference. The simplest theory is the Fido-Fido theory – that reference is all that an NP has to contribute to the meaning of phrases and sentences in which it occurs. Two big problems for this theory are coreferential NPs that do not behave as though they were semantically equivalent and meaningful NPs without a referent. These problems are especially acute in sentences..
     
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  8. (2 other versions)Reference to Ultimate Reality and Meaning in an African language: A further contribution to URAM Igbo studies.C. O. Ijiomah - 2004 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 27 (1):70-81.
     
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    On “How” to Do African Philosophy in African Language.Maduka Enyimba - 2022 - Philosophy Today 66 (1):25-37.
    How should African philosophy be done in African Language? In response to this question, I engage Ngugi and Wiredu in their response to this language question in African philosophy. My aim is to appraise and extend their arguments by answering the question of “how” doing African philosophy in African language can be practically achieved. In this regard, I make a case for the creation of an indigenous cultural language that serves as a means of articulating, (...)
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    The role of African languages in African philosophy.Alena Rettová - 2002 - Rue Descartes 36 (2):129-150.
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    African Philosophic Sagacity in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.Wilfred Lajul - 2024 - Springer Nature Switzerland.
    This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his “Four Trends in Current African Philosophy” (1981), which he later expanded to six trends (1998). Oruka defines philosophic sagacity as wisdom philosophy, or philosophy of the wise men of Africa who are independent, liberal and non-conformist thinkers, and who often deviate from the accepted common norms of their societies. This book takes philosophic sagacity discourse beyond Oruka’s definition by encompassing traditional wise sayings (...)
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    Cultural and Linguistic Prejudices Experienced by African Language Speaking Witnesses and Legal Practitioners at the Hands of Judicial Officers in South African Courtroom Discourse: The Senzo Meyiwa Murder Trial.Zakeera Docrat & Russell H. Kaschula - 2024 - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 37 (4):1309-1322.
    This article recognizes that linguistic prejudice (with its associated cultural biases) is a reality in any multilingual country, including South Africa. Prejudice is inherently human and the article suggests that it can be both positive and negative. In the case of the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial the article suggests that the linguistic prejudice experienced by witnesses and legal practitioners was largely negative. Even though the South African Constitution suggests an empowering multilingual environment where there are now twelve official (...), in contrast to this, the article takes as a point of departure the monolingual language of record policy that has been in place in the South African legal system since 2017. This is contrary to the constitutional imperatives. It is argued that this policy negatively impacts witnesses and legal practitioners and that the Meyiwa trial is a case in point. It is found that in this trial there is linguistic prejudice (practiced by the presiding judge) where there are linguistic or cultural voids related to communicative inequality and where the speaker does not have sufficient English vocabulary to proceed. It is concluded that the interpretation process also has its challenges and that ideally the use of African languages as languages of record in courts could only aid the delivery of social justice and the implementation of language rights in a multilingual and multicultural country such as South Africa. (shrink)
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    IV. Critique on Mr Hyde Clarke's Theory of the Relation of the Australian to the South African Languages.Theophilus Hahn - 1879 - Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 2 (1):28-42.
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    The Situation of the Indigenous African Languages as a Challenge for Philosophy.Jacob Emmanuel Mabe - 2020 - Philosophy Study 10 (10).
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    Conceptual Articulations and the Growth of African Languages.Osita Nnajiofor & Maduka Enyimba - 2024 - Philosophy Today 68 (1):167-181.
    We argue in this paper that unveiling of concepts is a viable means of promoting the growth of African languages in contemporary African studies. We show that African languages face serious threat of extinction due to neglect from their users and undue influence of colonial languages. We contend that the ratio of indigenous languages used as official languages compared to colonial languages is poor and despicable. The growth of African (...) has been stunted due to the multilingual nature of African continent. It has rendered the languages underdeveloped, thereby limiting their propagation and audience. We demonstrate how conversational thinking aids the growth of African languages and philosophy through conceptual articulation. Conversational thinking whose arumaristic approach aims at creating new thoughts and unveiling new concepts offers African philosophers a robust tool for expanding the vocabularies of African indigenous languages by creating concepts from underexplored African traditional wisdom and clichés. (shrink)
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  16. General Problems of Classification of African Languages.Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig & Wilhelm Möhlig - 1987 - Diogenes 35 (137):113-133.
    On principle, there are no language classifications which are right or wrong, but only classifications which are more or less useful or useless. This statement at the beginning of my paper is intended to indicate the teleological perspective in which I want to view the more general problems involved in the classification of African languages. I shall discuss these within a framework which I derive from the four main components of any language classification, namely:1.the aims and objectives of (...)
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  17. The Idea of African Philosophy in African Language.G. Azenabor - 2000 - Indian Philosophical Quarterly 27 (3):321-328.
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    Production Is Only Half the Story — First Words in Two East African Languages.Katherine J. Alcock - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    Book Reviews of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers, Publishing in African Languages: Challenges and Prospects, Introduction to Publishing Studies, Book Sales on the Internet.Ian McGowan, Ainslie Thin, Jane Dorner & Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo - 2000 - Logos 11 (3):148-153.
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    Theoretical Problems in the Description of African Languages.Luc Bouquiaux - 1987 - Diogenes 35 (137):88-112.
    In a work that appeared in 1967 but which has lost none of its interest today, P. Alexandre gave a list of the 51 languages of Black Africa (or homogeneous dialectical and linguistic groups) that approached or surpassed a million speakers. For each of them he evaluated available documentation, on a scale of from 1 to 6. He gave the rating 1 to languages for which the documentation was poor (outdated grammars and dictionaries, incomplete or absurd systems of (...)
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    Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy: Doing African Philosophy with Language.Grivas Muchineripi Kayange - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a philosophical activity when they use expressions such as taboos, proverbs, idioms, riddles, and metaphors. The analysis investigates proverbs using the ordinary language approach and Speech Act theory. Next, (...)
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  22. The Problem of How to Use African Language for African Thought–On a Multilingual Perspective in African Philosophy.Kai Kresse - 1999 - African Philosophy 12 (1):27-36.
     
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    (1 other version)African studies through language-based techniques.Ndubuisi Osuagwu - 2018 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 7 (1):101-124.
    In this article, we argue that language-based techniques have the capacity to generate original ideas and thus account for progress in any discipline. We claim that language-based techniques used by some African scholars such as hermeneutics and related ones such as transliteration are creatively inadequate to inspire progress because they do not lead to the creation of new concepts and original ideas in African thought. We claim also that the technique of intellectual decolonisation with its foremost expression in (...)
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  24. Language, reality and truth: The african point of view.Bert Hamminga - 2005 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 88 (1):85-116.
    In the traditional African view, words and sentences are not viewed as being liable to objective reflective truth/falsehood-judgments. It is not a person-word-reality-view, but a person-word-person-view: the sender's words are units of orally produced energy that have the power to improve or degenerate the receiver's vitality. Words received can make you more powerful by increasing your confidence and your control over your environment. But they can equally well harm (parts of) you, by discouraging you in certain endeavors. From the (...)
     
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    An African feminist philosophy of language.Olayinka Oyeleye - 2024 - New York: Routledge.
    This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze. The book begins with an analysis of the philosophical context of African feminism, and a call for the decolonization of epistemological discourse. Oyeleye then goes on to consider how indigenous patriarchies play out in the cultural reality of the Yoruba in particular, ontologically unpacking the nature of woman as expressed in language, especially in (...)
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    The Analytic – Synthetic Distinction in Indigenous African Language.Francis Offor - 2007 - Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 4:187-196.
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    Ordinary Language Analysis and African Philosophy.Moses Òkè - 2008 - Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 5:143-150.
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    Language and African-American Culture: The Need for Meta-Philosophical Reflection.Meili Steele - 1996 - Philosophy Today 40 (1):179-187.
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    Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth: A portrait-corpus study.Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy & Arne Peters - 2020 - Cognitive Linguistics 31 (4):579-608.
    Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people’s perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the (...)
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  30. Language and thought: a problématique in African philosophy.Benjamin Ike Ewelu - 2010 - Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria: Delta Publications.
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    Language, Race and Politics: From “Black” to “African-American”.Marion Orr & Ruth W. Grant - 1996 - Politics and Society 24 (2):137-152.
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  32. The language question in African philosophy.Adeshina Afolayan - 2006 - In Olusegun Oladipo, Core issues in African philosophy. Ibadan, Nigeria: Hope Publications.
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    Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy.George Hull (ed.) - 2018 - New York: Routledge.
    In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin--in philosophy as in other disciplines--that have been unjustly ignored or marginalized. African scholars have demonstrated that precolonial African cultures generated ideas and arguments which were at once truly philosophical and distinctively African, and several contemporary African thinkers are now established figures in the philosophical mainstream. Yet, despite the universality of its themes, relevant contributions from (...) philosophy have rarely permeated global philosophical debates. Critical intellectual excavation has also tended to prioritize precolonial thought, overlooking more recent sources of home-grown philosophical thinking such as Africa's intellectually rich liberation movements. This book demonstrates the potential for constructive interchange between currents of thought from African philosophy and other intellectual currents within philosophy. Chapters authored by leading and emerging scholars: recover philosophical thinkers and currents of ideas within Africa and about Africa, bringing them into dialogue with contemporary mainstream philosophy; foreground the relevance of African theorizing to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of language, moral/political philosophy, philosophy of race, environmental ethics and the metaphysics of disability; make new interventions within on-going debates in African philosophy; consider ways in which philosophy can become epistemically inclusive, interrogating the contemporary call for 'decolonization' of philosophy. Showing how foregrounding Africa--its ideas, thinkers and problems--can help with the project of renewing and improving the discipline of philosophy worldwide, this book will stimulate and challenge everyone with an interest in philosophy, and is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduate students and scholars of African and Africana philosophy. (shrink)
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  34. The language dilemma and crisis bsf african philosophy.Francis Matambirofa - 2002 - In Claude Sumner & Samuel Wolde Yohannes, Perspectives in African philosophy: an anthology on "problematics of an African philosophy: twenty years after, 1976-1996". Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University. pp. 267.
     
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    On the nature of language – Heidegger and African Philosophy.Abraham Olivier - 2008 - South African Journal of Philosophy 27 (4):310-324.
    This paper explores links between Heidegger's notion of language and views in African philosophy. My contention is that Heidegger's daring phenomenology of language is also found and even radicalised within the framework of African philosophy, particularly the philosophy of myth. I argue that the exploration of the relation between these views of language offers the possibility not only to expand on the conventional conception of language but also to challenge the common notion of philosophical language and philosophy as (...)
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    Pan-African Linguistic and Cultural Unity.Simphiwe Sesanti - 2017 - Theoria 64 (153):10-21.
    Contrary to the view that Africa is populated by many ethnic groups whose cultures and languages have no relation to one another, scientific research, as opposed to impressionistic arguments, points to the fact that African languages are connected, and by extension, demonstrate African cultural connectivity and unity. By making reference to both African and European scholars, this article demonstrates pan-African linguistic and cultural unity, and echoes pan-Africanist scholars’ call for African linguistic and cultural (...)
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    African American English and the Achievement Gap: The Role of Dialectal Code Switching.Holly K. Craig - 2016 - Routledge.
    Many African American children make use of African American English in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate significantly better test scores than their less adaptable peers. Accordingly, AAE use and its confirmed inverse relationship to reading achievement have been implicated in the Black-White Test Score Gap, thus becoming the focus of intense research and (...)
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    Logic and African philosophy: seminal essays on African systems of thought.Jonathan O. Chimakonam (ed.) - 2020 - Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press.
    Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought aims to put African intellectual history in perspective, with focus on the subjects of racism, logic, language, and psychology. The volume seeks to fill in the gaps left by the exclusion of African thinkers that are frequent in the curricula of African schools concerning history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. The book is divided into four parts that are preceded by an introduction to link (...)
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    Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy.Edwin E. Etieyibo (ed.) - 2018 - Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
    This book takes stock of the strides made to date in African philosophy. Authors focus on four important aspects of African philosophy: the history, methodological debates, substantive issues in the field, and direction for the future. By collating this anthology, Edwin E. Etieyibo excavates both current and primordial knowledge in African philosophy, enhancing the development of this growing field.
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  40. A South African University in Transition: The University of Stellenbosch Examines Its Language Policy.L. Hubbell - 2002 - Journal of Thought 37 (2):89-102.
     
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    The putative addressee in the persuasion of diplomatic discourse: China’s communication efforts through South African English-language newspapers.Liping Tang - 2021 - Discourse and Communication 15 (4):458-475.
    This article explores the putative addressee in the persuasion of diplomatic discourse by adopting White’s recent proposals as to putative reader/addressee positioning to specifically examine China’s communication efforts through South African English-language newspapers in the Xi Jinping era. Likemindedness is found to be predominantly construed, meticulously balanced with relative frequent construal of uncommittedness and very rare construal of un-likemindedness. And a set of 12 interrelated discourses are identified as fundamental ideological tenets in legitimating China’s African engagement and its (...)
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    The Social Ontology Of African American Language, The Power Of Nommo, And The Dynamics Of Resistance And Identity Through Language.George Yancy - 2012 - In Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. State University of New York Press. pp. 295-326.
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    African philosophy and the sociological thesis.Carole Pearce - 1992 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (4):440-460.
    "African philosophy," when conceived of as ethnophilosophy, is based on the idea that all thought is social, culture-bound, or based in natural language. But ethnophilosophy, whatever its sociological status, makes no contribution to philosophy, which is necessarily invulnerable to the sociological thesis. The sociological thesis must be limited in application to its own proper domain. The conflation of sociological and philosophical discourse arises from the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. This fallacy is responsible, among other things, for the sociological misinterpretation (...)
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  44. African Meanings, Western Words.Barry Hallen - 1997 - African Studies Review 40 (1):1--11.
    An overview of African Studies with respect to representing the meanings of African languages with Western languages.
     
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  45. Deducing Individualism in African Society Through the Study of Language.Grivas Kayange - 2018 - In Grivas Muchineripi Kayange, Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy: Doing African Philosophy with Language. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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    English in language shift: The history, structure, and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English (review).Timothy C. Frazer - 1994 - In Stephen Everson, Language: Companions to Ancient Thought, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. pp. 70--3.
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    The Heresy of African-Centered Psychology.Naa Oyo A. Kwate - 2005 - Journal of Medical Humanities 26 (4):215-235.
    This paper contends that African-centered models of psychopathology represent a heretical challenge to orthodox North American Mental Health. Heresy is the defiant rejection of ideology from a smaller community within the orthodoxy. African-centered models of psychopathology use much of the same language and ideas about the diagnostic process as Western psychiatry and clinical psychology but explicitly reject the ideological foundations of illness definition. The nature of the heretical critique is discussed, and implications for the future of this school (...)
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    Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions.Sanja Bahun - 2012 - Ashgate Pub. Co.. Edited by Dušan Radunović.
    Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs and ideological tropes inextricably linked to human existence. Offering reflections on the status, discursive possibilities, and political, ideological and practical uses of oral or written word in both contemporary society and the work of previous thinkers, this book traverses South African courts, British clinics, language schools in East Timor, prison cells, cinemas, literary criticism textbooks and philosophical treatises in order to forge (...)
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    Language and Value Orientations in Higher Education.Chijioke F. Nwosu - 2023 - Journal of Ethics in Higher Education 2:1-27.
    Language plays a central role in the life and activities of our world. This article is a theoretical analysis of the dynamic powers of language in driving possible value-based orientations in higher education. The multilingual nature of the continent of Africa and its bilateral lingual experiences during the colonial eras should be considered as both factual and impacting factors in evaluating language dynamics within value orientations and learning in the African case study. To this end, the article attempts to (...)
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  50. African Epistemology.Paul O. Irikefe - forthcoming - The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Third Edition, Kurt Sylvan, Matthias Steup, Ernest Sosa and Jonathan Dancy (Eds.).
    This chapter examines the three projects that constitute contemporary African epistemology and suggests various ways in which they can be put on a firmer footing, and by so doing advance the epistemic goal of the discipline. These three projects include ethno-epistemology, analytic African epistemology and what one might call ameliorative African epistemology. Ethno-epistemology is the study of the phenomenon of knowledge from the perspective of particular African communities as revealed in their cultural heritage, proverbs, folklores, traditions, (...)
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