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Africa

From Douala to Yaounde, a philosophical journey—Sanya Osha encounters the contradictions fueling Cameroon’s fertile intellectual culture

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Cameroon is both exceptional and inexplicable. Like much of Africa, it suffered horrendous colonial afflictions and atrocities, yet its heart…

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Academic

Philosophy in Africa, or Africa in Philosophy? Mary Carman reviews Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy

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Mary Carman reviews Debating African Philosophy, a new collection of essays that originated during student protests and demands for the…

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The quest to establish a world-class African philosophical tradition—Sanya Osha reviews Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Humanism

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On Paulin Hountondji’s Universalist philosophy—Sanya Osha reviews Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Humanism, by Franziska Dubgen and Stefan Skupien….