Adeshina Afolayan holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the editor of Auteuring Nollywood (2014).

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Allows new and established scholars of African Philosophy to re-engage their own and other philosophers' ideas, arguments, and thoughts about Africa and her predicament in a global world where issues of knowledge, technologies, sexuality, hybridity, gender, neoliberalism, and terrorism have become major intellectual staples

Provides researchers, students and teachers of African Philosophy with a handy volume about the past, current states, and future possibilities of the discipline

Represents a comprehensive handbook in a field that has not had such a volume for many years

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1. Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization

2. African Philosophy: appraisal of a recurrent problematic

3. Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age

4. A Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, Nkrumah and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Post-Modernity

5. Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji and Mudimbe.

6. Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning

7. Rethinking the History of African Philosophy

8. The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics

9. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy

10. Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?

11. The Geography of African Philosophy

12. Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa

13. An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy

14. Confucianism and African Philosophy

15.Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy

16. Philosophy of Afrocentricity

17. "Black" Philosophy, "African" Philosophy, "Africana" Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in "Philosophy"

18. Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

19. The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limit of Continental Philosophy

20. On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation

21. Sophia, Phronesis and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy

22. Gendering African Philosophy; Or: African Feminism as Decolonising Force

23. Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective

24. Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality

25. African Philosophy, Afropolitanism and "Africa"

26. Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa

27. Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and North Africa

28. The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading

29. Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization

30. Community, Communism, and Communitarianism

31. African Humanism and Ethics: The Case of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí

32. Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law

33. Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa

34. African Philosophy at the African Cinema

35. Philosophy of Science and Africa

36. Supporting the African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions

37. Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance

38. Indigenous (African) Knowledge System, Science and Technology

39. African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology

40. Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory

41. Ubuntu and the Environment

42. African Philosophy in a World of Terror

43. Yorùbá Conception of Peace

44. African Philosophy and Education

45. Ritual Archives

46. Philosophy, Education and Art in Africa

47. Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-position

48. African Philosophy for Children

49. African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse

50. A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy