Religions

Kwame Opoku argues for the restitution of stolen cultural and religious objects from Africa. He states: “The African demand for the return of the stolen cultural objects will not disappear for many of these objects are expressions of the deepest feelings of a way of life, an understanding of the universe and religious expressions.” [Full Text Article, pdf]

Par le Prof. Ntoh Ntoh Benjamin. On comprend rapidement l’univers de la spiritualité en Afrique : c’est l’univers de la parole, parole sèche =pensée divine et parole humide donnée à l’Homme pour produire des sons qui permettent de transmettre la connaissance de générations en générations. [Texte intégral, pdf]

By Samir Amin. In: Africa Development, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1, 2004, Special Issue on ‘Philosophy and Development’, CODESRIA. La naissance de la modernité en Occident est caractérisée par trois critères principaux: le capitalisme, la démocratie, et la laïcité. Mais pour comprendre ce phénomène, il faut se rendre compte des rôles joués par les trois religions dites du Livre—le christianisme, le judaïsme, et l’islam. [Full Text Article, pdf]

Par Ruben UM NYOBE. Article paru en nouvelle version dans la revue “Peuples Noirs Peuples Africains” no. 29 (1982), p. 45-56. Version originale signée Douala, le 22 avril 1955, pour le Bureau Politique de l’UPC, Le Secrétaire Général Ruben Um Njobe. [Full Text Article]

Vortrag von Prinz Kum’ a Ndumbe III., gehalten in Berlin am 21. Oktober 2006 im Rahmen des Calumed Kongress zu Spiritualität und Heilung. [Full Text Article, pdf] (more…)

By Ali A. Mazrui. Third and last Lecture, Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial lectures, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, 2002. Africa also seeks to be out of the shadows and more with the quest for a creative African revolution. We shall examine how Africa seeks to be out of the shadows and in quest of an empowered and constructive role in a global order. [Full Text Article, html]

By Ali A. Mazrui. First of three Lectures, Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial lectures, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

Kum’a Ndumbe (2001): Paper presented at University of Oslo, Unit for comparative and international education, Institute for Educational Research, 23.02.2001. [Full Text Article, pdf,1217KB]

Kum’a Ndumbe (2001): University of Oslo, Unit for comparative and international education, Institute for Educational Research, Helga Eng.’s House, Blinder, 23.02.2001. [Full Text Article, pdf, 97KB]

Abdulai Iddrisu. CODESRIA papers, The 10th General Assembly, 2002. [Full Text Article, pdf]

Kwasi Wiredu. In: African Studies Quarterly, 1.4 (1997). By decolonization, I mean divesting African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from our colonial past. The crucial word in this formulation is “undue”. Obviously, it would not be rational to try to reject everything of a colonial ancestry. [Full Text Article, html]

By Alamin Mazrui. Paper presented at the Conference on “Glaube als Katalysator: Religion und die Suche nach Erneuerung der Gesellschaften in Afrika”, Evangelischen Akademie Loccum, 29. bis 31. October 2001. [Full Text Article, pdf, 61 kb]

By Dirk J. Louw. 20th World Conference of Philosophy: PAIDAIA. This paper deals with an assessment of the faith of others which transcends absolutism without resorting to relativism. More specifically, it aims to show that an African philosophy and way of life called ‘Ubuntu’ (humanness) significantly overlaps with such a ‘decolonized’ assessment of the religious other, and that this assessment can therefore also be explained, motivated or underscored with reference to the concept of Ubuntu. [Full Text Article, html]

By Kwasi Wiredu. In: African Studies Quarterly, 1.4 (1997). By decolonization, I mean divesting African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from our colonial past. The crucial word in this formulation is “undue”. Obviously, it would not be rational to try to reject everything of a colonial ancestry. [Full Text Article, html]

By James R. Cochrane, Bastienne Klein, South African Philosophical Studies I, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series II Africa, Vol 6. [Full Text Book, html]

By Kölá Abíðbölá. In: West Africa Review, Vol 3. Number 1 (2001). This paper provides a philosophical assessment of two institutions and their practices: the institution of traditional medicine and the ethical issues generated by its practice; and, the institution of contemporary African philosophy and the relevance of its practice to African societies. Taking one contemporary African society as an example, I argue that the metaphysical assumptions implicit within the practice of medicine provide new insights into the relationship between morality and religion. These assumptions also provide new guidelines on how to make philosophy more relevant to contemporary African societies. [Full Text Article, html] [also available as pdf]

By Theophilius Okere, Nigerian Philosophical Studies. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series II Africa, Vol 3. [Full Text Book, html]