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What’s New in… African Philosophy

African thinkers are confronting their continent’s vast problems and grappling with the nature of their own intellectual and cultural heritage. Safro Kwame casts a critical eye over the scene and describes the philosophers and their work.

At the last American Philosophical Association meeting of the 1990’s, which took place in Boston from 27th to 30th December 1999, a young woman came in and sat next to me as I was listening to the presidential address. She told me that she grew up around philosophers and could name many of them at the current American Philosophical Association meeting including her father. She inquired about my speciality and I replied, “African philosophy.” “Is there such a thing as African philosophy?,” she asked. To which, I replied, “What is philosophy?” “It is the love of wisdom!” she answered, almost immediately.

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