Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy

Preface.- The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy.- Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy.- How African is Philosophy in Africa?.- Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge.- The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa.- How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda.- Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism.- Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Alternative.- African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties.- On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics.- How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic.- Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools.- Ubuntu as a plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place.- Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence.- Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development.- Totality by Analogy; or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity.- The African Philosopher and the Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS).- Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation.- Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care.- The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical - Theological Reflections.- The Themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, and Optimism in Ibuanyidanda and Consolation Ontologies.- African Philosophy and Intellectual History.- Index.