Listening to Ourselves
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Listening to Ourselves

A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Listening to Ourselves

A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy

About this book

Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.

A groundbreaking contribution to the discipline of philosophy, this volume presents a collection of philosophical essays written in indigenous African languages by professional African philosophers with English translations on the facing pages-demonstrating the linguistic and conceptual resources of African languages for a distinctly African philosophy. Hailing from five different countries and writing in six different languages, the seven authors featured include some of the most prominent African philosophers of our time. They address a range of topics, including the nature of truth, different ways of conceiving time, the linguistic status of proverbs, how naming practices work, gender equality and inequality in traditional society, the relationship between language and thought, and the extent to which morality is universal or culturally variable.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword: A Historic First
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Listening to Ourselves
  6. Dëgg ak ludul dëgg: Waxtaan diggante Soxna ak càmmiñam Ngóór
  7. Truth and Untruth: A Conversation Between Soxna and Her Friend Ngóór
  8. The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity
  9. The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity
  10. Ngero ok Rias: Kaka Puonj mar Ngero Chalo, Kendo Kaka Ngero Opogore gi Pimo Wach
  11. A Proverb Never Lies: On the Nature of Proverbs and How They Differ from Propositions
  12. Ang’o Man e Nying’? Okange Ang’wen Mag Nyinge e Oganda Luo
  13. What’s in a Name? Four Levels of Naming among the Luo People
  14. KƩgeria Mĩario: Atumia, Ciana, MbƩri, MĩgƩnda
  15. Conversations: Women, Children, Goats, Land
  16. Okwu na Uche
  17. Word and Mind
  18. Papa ne Bɔne
  19. Good and Evil
  20. Contributors
  21. Index