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The African Philosophy Reader

William King ponders a collection of essays which show the diversity of African philosophy.

A number of years ago, Louis E. Wilson, a former colleague of mine who taught courses in African history, remarked to me that there are no Africans. Rather, he contended, the case is that there is a congeries of different peoples who inhabit a geographical land mass called Africa, that these peoples possess different histories and cultures, and that it is unwise to generalize about all the peoples that live there as if they were a single monolithic mass. The same might be said for the subject of African philosophy, as several of the authors contained in this reader make clear.

In brief, this volume contains nine chapters.

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