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Volume XIX (2005)

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An African Journal of Philosophy/

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

Vol. XIX, No. 1-2, 2005

Table of Contents

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	EDITORIAL: The Roman Catholic church, and the hermeneutics of race, as two contexts for African philosophy	3
Articles		21
	AN AFRICAN PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHY: A Personal Testimony, by Valentin Y. Mudimbe	21
	LE RÔLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE DANS LA CONSTRUCTION D’UN ETAT DE DROIT SELON JÜRGEN HABERMAS, par Jean-Luc Malango Kitungano S.J.	37
	AFRICA IN DU BOIS’S PHILOSOPHY OF RACE, by Teodros Kiros	47
	RACE, RHETORIC AND A POSTMODERN WORLD, by Sanya Osha	77
	RE-ENCOUNTERING AFRICAN CULTURE: In living Christianity in my father’s home, by Alozie Oliver Onwubiko	91
	IDENTITY AS EVOLUTIVE: An intercultural approach based on an examination of Mudimbe, de Beauvoir, Taylor, and Mbembe, by Carolien Ceton	109
	DERRIDA ON RELIGION: Glimpses of interculturality, by Wim van Binsbergen	129
Quest laboratory: ETUDE CRITIQUE DE L’ OEUVRE DE FRÉDÉRIC-BIENVENU MABASI BAKANA, par Louis Mpala Mbabula		153
Reviews Section		183
	IS VIOLENCE INEVITABLE IN AFRICA? THEORIES OF CONFLICT AND APPROACHES TO CONFLICT PREVENTION, BY CHABAL, PATRICK, ENGEL, ULF, & GENTILI, ANNA-MARIA, Review by Tatashikanda Kahare	183
	In the Name of Oil: Oil, Politics, Poverty & The Planet, by Toby Shelly, Review by Sanya Osha	189
	The Making of a Modern Postcolonial Culture: The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison, Michel R. Doortmont, ed., Review by Sanya Osha	195
	REVIEW COPIES RECEIVED	199
Notes on contributors		201

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