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ISSN 1011-226X

QUEST

An African Journal of Philosophy/

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

Vol. XVIII, No. 1-2, 2004

(actual date of publication December 2005)

Table of Contents

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EDITORIAL: The principal challenge facing the African philosopher today

3

Articles

9

AUTOCHTHONY AND CITIZENSHIP: New Modes in the Struggle over Belonging and Exclusion in Africa, by Peter Geschiere

9

FROM AN AFRICAN ONTOLOGY TO AN AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY: A critique of J.S. Mbiti on the time conception of Africans, by Moses Òkè

25

POUR UNE NOUVELLE ORIENTATION DE LA PHILOSOPHIE AFRICAINE: A propos de Philosophie et pouvoir politique en Afrique de P. Ngoma-Binda, par Kasereka Kavwahirehi

37

IDEOLOGIES OF WOMEN’S NAMES AMONG THE NSO’ OF CAMEROON: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Naming, Decolonization and Gender, by Bongasu Tanla Kishani

57

MODERNITÉ ET MONDIALISATION: Rupture historique ou mutation?, par Hamidou Talibi Moussa

83

POPPER WITTGENSTEIN: LA PHILOSOPHIE ET SES NOMS PROPRES, par Ahmadou Tidiane Talla

97

A THEMATIC COMPARISON BETWEEN FOUR AFRICAN SCHOLARS: IDOWU, MBITI, OKOT p’BITEK & APPIAH, by Louise Muller

109

ETRUSCAN ADDS FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY TO AFRICA AS A NAME, A CONCEPT AND A CONTINENT, by Fred C. Woudhuizen

125

Quest laboratory: AFRICAN NOTES ON THE UNESCO STRATEGY ON PHILOSOPHY, by Wim van Binsbergen

129

The Society for African philosophy (Gesellschaft für afrikanische Philosophie – GAPh) introduces itself

141

Reviews Section

143

FOREGROUNDING AFRICAN SEXUALITIES: A Review of Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa, Signe Arnfred, ed., by Sanya Osha

143

A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY, BY BARRY HALLEN, A Review by Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo

147

RIGHTS AND THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION IN AFRICA, BY ENGLUND, HARRI, & NYAMNJOH, FRANCIS B. EDS., A Review by Mohammad Hossein Seifikar

153

Notes on contributors

157

 

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