PH60D — Advanced African Philosophy

Reading List: Ancient Period

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  • Wande Abimbola and Barry Hallen (1993) "Secrecy and Objectivity in the Methodology and Literature of Ifa Divination," in P. Nooter (ed.) Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals. New York: The Museum for African Art and Munich: Prestel, pp. 213- 221.
  • William Abraham (1962) The Mind of Africa Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • S. A. Adewale (1988) The Religion of the Yoruba: A Phenomenological Analysis Ibadan, Nigeria: Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan,
  • E. Albert (1970) "African Conceptual Systems," The African Experience, eds. J. Paden and E. Soja Evanston: Northwestern University Press
  • Peter Amato (1997) "African Philosophy and Modernity," also in Eze (ed.) Postcolonial African Philosophy, pp. 71-99.
  • E. Anderson (1972) "The Concept of Justice and Morality Among the Bakuta in the Congo- Brazzaville," Ethnos, vol. 37
  • K. Anthony Appiah (1962) In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture Oxford: Oxford University Press,
  • Robert G. Armstrong (1966) "Prolegomena to the Study of the Idoma Concept of God," African Notes, vol. 4, no. 1: 11-17.
  • Joseph I. Asike (1992) "Contemporary African Philosophy: The Search for a Method or Rediscovery of Its Content?," Indian Philosophical Quarterly 19/1: 23-39.
  • W. L. Avery (1971) "Concepts of God in Africa," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 39, no. 3 391.
  • John A. A. Ayoade (1984) "Time in Yoruba Thought," African Philosophy: An Introduction, ed. Richard Wright. New York and London: University Press of America,
  • William O. Bascom (1960) "Yoruba Concepts of Soul," Fifth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnological Sciences, Selected Papers, ed. Anthony F.C. Wallace. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 401-410.
  • J. H. M. Beattie (1960) "On the Nyoru Concept of 'mahano'," African Studies, vol. 19 (1960): 145-150.
  • J. H. M. Beattie (1966) "Ritual and Social Change," Man (n.s.) 1/1 60-74.
  • J. H. M. Beattie (1966) Other Cultures: Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd
  • J. H. M. Beattie (1973) "Understanding Traditional African Religion: A Comment on Horton," Second Order II/2 3-11.
  • Joseph T. Bedu-Addo (1983) "Sense-Experience and Recollection in Plato's Meno," American Journal of Philology 104. 228-248.
  • Joseph T. Bedu-Addo (1985) "Wiredu on Truth as Opinion and the Akan Language," Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives, ed. Peter Bodunrin. Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press, 68-90.
  • Joseph T. Bedu-Addo (1991) "Sense-Experience and the Argument for Recollection in Plato's Phaedo," Phronesis 36/1. 27-60.
  • T. O. Bedielman (1986) Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • R. N. Bell (1989) "Narrative in African Philosophy," Philosophy 64: 363-379.
  • R. N. Bell (1997) "Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-cultural Philosophy," also in Eze (ed.) Postcolonial African Philosophy. 197-220.
  • A. G. A. Bello (1979) "Natural Necessity," Second Order 8/1-2: 102-114.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (2002) Beauty and Culture. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1983) "African philosophy: some comments" in The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 3. Nos. 1&2. Pp. 70-83,
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1985) "African beliefs" in Oyeneye O and M. Shoremi (eds.) Nigerian life and culture. Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria: Ogun State University. Pp. 307-360.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1992) "Male youth physical culture in Esa-Oke" in Leena Laine (ed.) On the fringes of sport. Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academia Verlag, pp. 33-39,
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1992) "A critical analysis of the philosophical status of Yoruba Ifa literary corpus" in Wiener Reihe Vol. V1. Pp. 142-155.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1994) "Truth and ethics in African philosophy - a reply to Emmanuel Eze" in Quest. Vol. VIII, No. 1. Pp. 76-89,
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1995) "Critical comments on Pierce, African philosophy and the sociological thesis" in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Vol. 25, No. 1. Pp. 99-119.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1997) "The self as a focus of identity - A Preliminary Philososphical Analysis of Professor Nettlford's Discussion on the Crisis of Individuality in the Caribbean" in Caribbean Quartely, vol. 42, No 2, pp. 1-15.
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (1998) "Olodumare: God in Yoruba belief and the problem of evil" in African studies quarterly. Vol. 4..
  • J. A. I. Bewaji (2002) Beauty and Culture. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books.
  • Bewaji, Mary Bolajoko aya. (1983). Ogede. Unpublished NCE dissertation at Oyo State College of Education, Ilesa, Nigeria,
  • C. S. Bird and I. Karp eds. (1980) Explorations in African Systems of Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1975) "'Theoretical Entities' and Scientific Explanation," Second Order 4/1: 56- 65.
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1975) "The Alogicality of Immortality," Second Order 4/2: 36-44.
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1978) "Witchcraft, Magic and ESP: A Defense of Scientific and Philosophical Scepticism," Second Order 7/1-2
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1979) "Belief, Truth and Knowledge," Second Order 8/1-2: 28-46.
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1985) Ed. Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives (Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press.
  • Peter O. Bodunrin (1981) "The Question of African Philosophy," Philosophy, vol. 56: 161-179.
  • P. J. Rohannan (1953) "Concepts of Time Among the Tiv of Nigeria," Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, vol. 9: 251-262
  • David E. Cooper (1975) "Alternative Logic in 'Primitive Thought'," Man (n.s.), vol. 10: 238-256.
  • Franz Crahay (1965) "Conceptual Take-Off Conditions for a Bantu Philosophy," Diogenes, vol. 52: 61- 84
  • A. T. Dalfovo et al eds. (1992) African Metaphysical Heritage and Contemporary Life in the Foundations of Social Life. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy
  • Donald Davidson (1974) "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 47: 5-20.
  • Fancis Deng (1995) "Blood Brothers (Reflections on Ethnicity in Africa)," Brookings Review 13/3: 12-17.
  • H. P. Duerr (1985) Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Maduabu Dukor (1989) "African Cosmology and Ontology," Indian Philosophical Quarterly 16/4: 367-391.
  • Maduabu Dukor (1990) "God and Godlings in African Ontology," Indian Philosophical Quarterly 17/1: 75-89.
  • Parker English and K. Kubujjo eds. (1996) African Philosophy: A Classical Approach. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
  • Parker English and K. Kubujjo eds. (1987) "Philosophy in a Developing Country," Philosophy 62: 59-66.
  • E. E. Evans-Prichard (1937) Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. London: OUP
  • E. Eze ed, (1997) Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader Oxford: Blackwell
  • E. Eze ed, (1997) African Philosophy: An Anthology. Cambridge: Blackwell
  • E. Eze ed, (1997) Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader. Cambridge: Blackwell
  • O. Fashina (1989) "Frantz Fanon and the Ethical Justification of Anti-Colonial Violence," Social Theory and Practice, vol. 5, no. 2: 179-212.
  • R. Firth (1966) "Twins, Birds and Vegetables," Man (n.s.) vol. 1: 1-17.
  • G. Floistad ed. (1987) Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey: African Philosophy, Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Martinius Nijhoff.
  • Daryl Forde ed (1954) African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Meyer Fortes (1986) "On the Concept of the Person Among Tallensi," African Systems of Thought, eds. Meyer Fortes and G. Dieterlen. London: Oxford University Press.
  • J. S. Mbiti (1982) African Religions and Philosophy. London: Heinmann.
  • Mary R. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers eds. (1996) Black Athena Revisited. London: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Ivan Van Sertima (1992) African presence in Early Europe.London: Transaction Publishers.
  • J. J. Williams (1930) Hebrewisms of West Africa. New York: The Dial Press.
  • R. Horton and R. Finegan eds. (1973) Modes of thought. London: Faber and Faber.
  • (1993) Patterns of thought in Africa and the West. Cambridge: CUP.
  • C. S. Momoh ed. (1989) The substance of African Philosophy. Auchi, Nigeria: APPP.
  • V. Y. Mudimbe (1994) The idea of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • O. Oladipo (1992) The idea of African Philosophy. Ibadan, Nigeria: Molecular Press.
  • Fred Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee eds. (1995) I am because we are. Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press.
  • John Inikori (1992) The chaining of a Continent. Mona, Jamaica: ISER.

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