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African Potentials.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ohta, Itaru.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2022.
- Summary:
- This book challenges colonial and age-old Western academic views that have dominated and marginalised African indigenous knowledge system.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Notes on Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction. African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness
- 1. African Potentials Project
- 2. Trajectory of African Forum
- 3. Key Perspectives of African Potentials
- 4. Reflexivity/Constancy or Autonomous Self/Public Solidarity
- 5. Creativity and Resistance in Everyday Lifeness
- 6. Palaver and Another Mode of Democracy
- 7. Palaver and Everyday Lifeworld
- 8. Publication of a Seven-Volume Series, ‘African Potentials: Convivial Perspectives for the Future of Humanity’
- 9. Structure of This Volume
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Part 1 - How African Society Can Be Decolonised and Liberated
- Chapter 1. DECOLONIALITY. Who is Afraid of Epistemic Relativism?Disentangling African Philosophy from the ‘Universalist’ Entrapment
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Africa Philosophy, Inception and Methodological Crisis
- 3. Purging African Philosophy of Colonial Influence: A Meta-Methodological Crisis
- 4. Dealing with the Fear of Epistemic Relativism
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. UNIVERSALS. Activating Latent Cultural Potentials and Social Prescriptions: The Potential for Emancipatory Political Thought in African Popular Cultures
- 2. Amilcar Cabral: Popular Culture and the Re-appropriation of History through Politics
- 3. Wamba-dia-Wamba: Collective Knowledge and the Prescriptive Quality of Proverbs Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9789956552542
- 9956552542
- OCLC:
- 1312795137
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