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  1. Beauty in African Thought – Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development, March 2023.Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Muller & Angela Roothaan (eds.) - forthcoming - Lanham, MD 20706, Verenigde Staten: Rowman & Littlefield.
    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of (...)
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  2. The Unresolved Shibboleth: Sydney Clouts and the Problems of an African Poetry.Susan Joubert - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  3. Makaveli's Offspring: A Kendrick Lamar Primer.Joseph Osel - forthcoming - de Musica 44 (13).
  4. Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development.Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.) - 2023 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of (...)
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  5. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2023 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy. Routledge.
  6. The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation.Diana-Abasi Ibanga - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  7. We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition.Pius Mosima & Nelson Shang - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
  8. "Introduction" in Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development, edited by B Bateye, M Masaeli, L.F Müller and A Roothaan. African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue, 1-11. Maryland, USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023.Louise Muller & Angela Roothaan - 2023 - In Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Maryland: Roman and Littlefield. pp. 1-11.
    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of (...)
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  9. Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction.Aderemi Oladele - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
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  10. Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development.Angela Roothaan - 2023 - In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller & A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development. Lexington Books.
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  11. Advancing African dance as a practice of freedom.Shani Collins & Truth Hunter - 2022 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and Through the Academy. Routledge.
  12. African Art: Debates and Controversies Around a Concept.Babacar Mbaye Diop - 2022 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 45-57.
    Whether classical or contemporary, the arts of the African continent have always been defined, often negatively, by Western categories. After identifying the different appellations of the arts in Black Africa, the controversies and misunderstandings in the debates on their semantic connotations and mutations, this article argues that the Western perspective that claims the right to define African art must be reconsidered from the sole point of view of Africa.
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  13. Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.Emery Patrick Effiboley - 2022 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 59-78.
    To colonise the African continent and later on expand its domination upon the rest of the world, Europe has denied history and by so doing history of art to Africa. This denial has infiltrated into all the fields of Euro-African relations and to some extent all human endeavors along the centuries.Standing from a decolonial point of view, this paper aims at questioning the art historical discourse on Africa so as to show how African art history moved from colonialist discourse to (...)
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  14. Ashé: ritual poetics in African diasporic.Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.) - 2022 - Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
    ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and (...)
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  15. Ashé: ritual poetics in African diasporic expression.Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.) - 2022 - New York: Routledge.
    ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and (...)
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  16. Zollywood and the eclipse of Christianity by African tradtional religion in post-colonial Zimbabwe.Robert Matikiti - 2022 - In William H. U. Anderson (ed.), Film, Philosophy and Religion. Vernon Press.
  17. When Punks Grow Up.Thomas Meagher - 2022 - In Joshua Heter (ed.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy. La Salle, IL, USA: pp. 47-56.
    An analysis of punk in light of the theme of existential maturity through discussions of Simone de Beauvoir, Devon Johnson, and the relationship between nihilism, seriousness, and revolt.
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  18. Caught in the Cosmic Web: Ghanaian Folk Tales in the Twenty-First Century.Louise Muller & K. Dorvlo - 2022 - Amsterdam, Nederland: Quest for Wisdom Foundation.
    This e-book is a collection of orally transmitted folktales about animals, currently circulating among the Ewe and Akan people of Ghana. Many of the stories in this bundle provide an explanation for the appearance of the most remarkable Ghanaian animals. For example, why does the parrot have such beautiful feathers? And why does the Pin-tailed Whydah have such a long tail? For sure, Ghanaian storytellers know the answer. They shared their animal wisdom stories, including those of the famous spider Anansi, (...)
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  19. ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.Isaac N. Mwinlaaru & Mark Nartey - 2022 - Critical Discourse Studies 19 (5):556-572.
    Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancipation is the national anthem of colonised states. To fill this gap, the present study examines the discursive enactment of resistance in the anthems of former British colonies in Africa, focusing on the transitivity framework in systemic functional linguistics. Semantic and structural parallelisms (...)
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  20. Moments of realization: extending Homeworld in British-African Novelist Doris Lessing’s Four-Gated City.David Seamon - 2022 - Continental Philosophy Review 55 (4):519-535.
    For Husserl, the _homeworld_ is the tacit, taken-for-granted sphere of experiences, understanding, and situations marking out a world that is comfortable, usual, and “the way things are and should be.” Always, according to Husserl, the homeworld is in some mode of lived mutuality with an _alienworld_—a world as seen as a realm of difference, atypicality, and otherness. In this article, I draw on British-African novelist Doris Lessing’s 1969 novel, _The Four-Gated City_, to consider the shifting homeworld of protagonist Martha Quest, (...)
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  21. The globalization of Africana aesthetics.Theophus "Thee" Smith - 2022 - In Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.), Ashé: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression. Routledge.
  22. The globalization of Africana aesthetics.Theophus "Thee" Smith - 2022 - In Paul Carter Harrison, Michael D. Harris & Pellom McDaniels (eds.), Ashé: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic. Routledge.
  23. The “African Prints”: Africa and Aesthetics in the Textile World.Tunde M. Akinwumi - 2021 - In Adeshina Afolayan (ed.), Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 123-140.
    The chapter challenges the aesthetic imprints of Vlisco, a Dutch firm, whose representation of Africa’s image in its textile products and fabrics exported to Africa over many decades left much to be desired. The artistic contents of the products, mainly an amalgam of Javanese, Indian, Chinese, Arab and European cultural imageries, are branded as “African prints”. The chapter considered several arguments for and against Vlisco’s “African prints,” as well as the objection for a global understanding of textile and their aesthetic (...)
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  24. Aesthetic, African.Kariamu Welsh Asante - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 5-7.
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  25. Aesthetic, African Dance.Kariamu Welsh Asante - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 7-9.
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  26. Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: "Dwelling in the World" With Poetry and Criticism.Jean-Godefroy Bidima - 2021 - In Jean Godefroy Bidima & Laura Hengehold (eds.), African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: Acts of Transition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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  27. Architecture, West African Built Environment.Jean-Paul Bourdier & Trinh T. Minh-ha - 2021 - In V. Y. Mudimbe & Kasereka Kavwahirehi (eds.), Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 60-65.
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  28. The de-Africanization of African Art: Towards Post-African Aesthetics.Denis Ekpo & Pfunzo Sidogi - 2021 - Routledge.
    This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. (...)
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  29. On the Search for Identity in African Architecture.Emmanuel Babatunde Jaiyeoba - 2021 - In Adeshina Afolayan (ed.), Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 141-163.
    There is a contention on whether African architecture actually exists especially in relation to possessing a distinct identity. Also, African architecture is rarely discussed within mainstream contemporary theoretical debates in Architecture except with respect to influences on arts, artists and architecture in the developed world and generally speaking architecture of the past. This chapter reviews the different perspectives and conceptualisations on African architecture and its global influences. Furthermore the sources of and obstacles to identity formation in African architecture were reviewed (...)
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  30. Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts.Dike Okoro - 2021 - Routledge.
    This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa has always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing, images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This (...)
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  31. Braz Teixeira, António: A saudade na poesia lusófona africana E outros estudos sobre a saudade, Mil (movimento internacional lusófono) E dg edições, Linda-a-velha (portugal), 2021, 170p. [REVIEW]Luis García Soto & Miguel Ángel Martínez Quintanar - 2021 - Agora 41 (1).
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  32. Philosophy and Culture in the African Movies.John Ezenwankwor - 2019 - Maryland Studies: An International Journal of Philosophy and African Studies 16 (1):58-74.
    The discussions on the relation between philosophy and movies are not quite popular because of the generally believed idea that they front different methods in their presentation of reality. While the movies present ideas in the form of appearance and actions, philosophy presents ideas through a method of reflective analysis and debate. Notwithstanding the differences in method, this paper takes the view that movies often present, in the most distinct and clearer ways, a people's culture and philosophy, even to the (...)
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  33. Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art.John Warne Monroe (ed.) - 2019 - New York: Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
    A history of the French reception of African art, especially wooden masks and figures, in the first four decades of the twentieth century, and how that reception led to the creation of the broader aesthetic category Westerners now know as "primitive art.
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  34. Good and Beautiful: A Moral-Aesthetic View of Personhood in African Communal Traditions.Polycarp Ikuenobe - 2016 - Essays in Philosophy 17 (1):125-163.
    I articulate an African view of personhood that combines beauty and goodness–aesthetic and moral features. I discuss the idea of communalism, which provides the social and moral values and belief system that give meaning to this view of personhood. I use ideas from some African ethnic traditions, or some people’s account of these traditions, as examples to illustrate this view. The similarities in these examples from different ethnic traditions indicate that it is reasonable to characterize this view as a common (...)
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  35. An African Oresteia : Field Notes on Pasolini's Appunti per un' Orestiade africana.M. D. Usher - 2014 - Arion 21 (3):111.
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  36. The Changing Face of African Literature/Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine. Edited by Bernard de Meyer and Neil ten Kortenaar.Thomas A. Hale - 2012 - The European Legacy 17 (6):840-841.
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  37. Power and Influence: Self-Development Lessons From African Proverbs and Folktales.Chiku Malunga - 2012 - Upa.
    This book demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The timeless wisdom enriches the understanding of self-development and positive influence, contributing towards the much-needed, cross-cultural dialogue among individuals, organizations, and societies in this increasingly diversified world.
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  38. African frameworks of analysis for African film studies.Sheila J. Petty - 2012 - In Saër Maty Bâ & Will Higbee (eds.), De-Westernizing Film Studies. Routledge.
  39. Igba Ekpe Festival Chants in Ohafia: Philosophy and an African Culture.Egbeke Aja - 2011 - Great Ap Express Publishers.
  40. Black Orpheus and Aesthetic Historicism: On Vico and Negritude.Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino - 2011 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (2):121-135.
    This essay offers a novel approach for understanding the poetry of negritude and its role in the struggle for black liberation by appealing to Giambattista Vico’s insights on the historical, cultural, and myth-making function of poetry and of the mythopoetic imagination. The essay begins with a discussion of Vico’s aesthetic historicism and of his ideas regarding the role of imagination, poetry, and myth-making and then brings these ideas to bear on the discussion of the function of negritude poetry, focusing primarily (...)
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  41. African art as philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the idea of negritude.Souleymane Bachir Diagne - 2011 - New York: Seagull Books.
    Le;opold Se;dar Senghor (1906–2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy , Souleymane Bachir Diagne takes a unique approach to reading Senghor’s influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergson’s idea that in order to understand philosophers one must find the initial intuition from which every aspect of their work develops. In the case of Senghor, Diagne argues that his (...)
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  42. Postcolonial Imaginations and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture.Chielozona Eze - 2011 - Lexington Books.
    Following in the footsteps of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the tenor of the postcolonial African culture has been justifiably anti-imperialist. In the 21st century, however, there has been a gradual but certain shift away from the “write-back” discourse paradigm, towards more integrative, globally inflected cultural interpretive models in Africa. This book celebrates the emergence of new interpretive paradigms such as in African philosophy, gender studies and literature.
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  43. I’m Too Real For Yah.Tommy J. Curry - 2009 - Radical Philosophy Review 12 (1-2):61-77.
    I am interested in looking at Krumpin’ through what I am calling the “politics of submergence.” If my world is chaotic, if my Blackness is my murderer, can I be expected to create beauty? Can my art be transformative? My paper argues that Krumpin’ is in fact transformative, not to the extent that it perpetuates hope, but maintains its social pessimism. In accepting both the conditions that have sustained the racial marginalization of African descended people, and the impotence of this (...)
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  44. Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens.Wendy Grossman - 2009 - International Arts and Artists.
    "Exhibition dates: The Phillips Collection, Oct. 10, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Feb. 6-May 30, 2010; University of Virginia Museum of Art, Aug. 7-Oct. 10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology Oct. 29, 2010-Jan. 23, 2011." --T.p. verso.
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  45. Crisis of Representation in Wole Soyinka's Season of Anomy.Aisha Karim - 2009 - Mediations 24 (2).
    Perhaps one of the more consistent elements of Wole Soyinka’s work has been a commitment to an individual will that refuses collective mobilization. Aisha Karim argues that Soyinka’s novel Season of Anomy marks a departure from any commitment as such that opens the text to new political possibilities. But while Season of Anomy presents us with an alternative to the politics and poetics that underlie Soyinka’s dramatic output, Karim maintains that it does so only insofar as it imagines itself as (...)
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  46. Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics edited by nuttall, sarah.Dan Vaillancourt - 2009 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2):256-258.
  47. "Self-Writing" As History: Reconsidering Soyinka's Representation of the Past.Jane Bryce - 2008 - Philosophia Africana 11 (1):37-60.
  48. The Achievement of Wole Soyinka.F. Abiola Irele - 2008 - Philosophia Africana 11 (1):5-19.
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  49. Special Issue on Wole Soyinka.Esiaba Irobi - 2008 - Philosophia Africana 11 (1):1-4.
  50. Oguntoyinbo: Wole Soyinka and Igilango Geesi.Biodun Jeyifo - 2008 - Philosophia Africana 11 (1):21-36.
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