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The work has the capacity to stimulate interest for further critical reflection in the area of African Traditional Religion and philosophy. I, therefore, very strongly recommend it for all who treasure good African literature, and most especially for anyone who wishes to be abreast with important debates and developments in African Traditional Religion and philosophy. Experts, researchers, beginners and casual readers are bound to treasure the...

Looming at the horizon of this work is the need for the African people to relate to their environment within the categories they understand and appreciate. This Book of Readings on African Eco-Philosophy: Cosmology, Consciousness and the Environment, therefore, focuses on African philosophical reflections regarding the issue of ecology in Africa. These reflections spring from the African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritua...

The perspectives in this book reveal how in African anthroposophy, earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices are already emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it duly deserves. This piece, therefore, will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in ...

This piece studies the dimensions of Igwebuike, which include its place within the theater of being, and its literal and linguistic meanings. It presents Igwebuike as essentially a transcendent complementary comprehensive systematic effort to understand the structure and dynamics of reality ultimately for the purpose of giving honest answers to fundamental questions or opinions to questions that arise within the arena of asking questions and q...

The present work focuses on the major inquiries in philosophy of religion. This work is unique in its own way, in the sense that it introduces something new to the corpus of literature that is often referred to as philosophy of religion. It introduces themes in African philosophy of religion, which is an area not often referred to in African philosophy, let alone in textbooks in philosophy of religion. As this work opens a new aperture in the ...

The present work on African philosophy brings in new freshness into the African philosophical enterprise as it introduces not just thoughts that could be categorized as African philosophy but also thoughts that were borne from the reflections of individual African philosophers. It covers a period that could be referred to as modern African philosophy. It includes philosophical activities in Africa between the fifteenth and early part of the tw...

For several decades, African philosophers have debated on the history, nature, and methodology of African philosophy, among others, however, this piece takes a different turn. It reflects on the disciplines of African philosophy. It is a work of twelve chapters and focuses on the major disciplines of African philosophy. This piece is a response to the recurrent question in the class of African philosophy: What are the disciplines of African Ph...

The present work is part of the outcome of the 2018 International Conference of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies, which had the theme African ideologies in a world of change. Heraclitus of Ephesus, an ancient philosopher and one of the important thinkers in human history, said that change is the basic law of nature and the condition of all things. All things are in a state of flux. You cannot step twice into the same river,...

This notwithstanding, over the years, the African culture in all its manifestations became the bulls eye for attack especially during the Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Racism. During these periods, Europe dealt coup de grace to the African personality, to his is-ness, by destroying the African cultural values. They disrespected African peculiarities, languages enriched with traditions of centuries, parables, many of them the quintessence ...

This piece, which is a collection of papers presented at the 2018 International Conference of the Association of or the Promotion of African Studies, focuses on two major faces of violence in Africareligiopolitical violence and violence against women. It also studied the developments in literature in the face of changes taking place in Africa. The present work is one of the greatest developments in scholarship in African studies.

The present work on "Complementary Ontology: Provocative Essays On Innocent Asouzu's African Philosophy Of Integration for Progressive Transformation" is among the initial significant efforts at putting together the works of the admirers and disciples of Professor Asouzu's systematic complementary reflection. For so many of us who are familiar with the terrain of African philosophy, Professor Innocent Asouzu is a polymath and Gulliver of a sor...

The present work on "IBUANYIDANDA: A Complementary Systematic Inquiry" is one among the systematic and significant efforts at putting together the works of the admirers and disciples of Professor Innocent Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda complementary philosophy. For the many who are familiar with the terrain of contemporary African philosophy, Professor Innocent Asouzu is a polymath and Gulliver of a sort with commendable expertise in African philosophy...