Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Introduction African Philosophy: A Critical/Moral Practice; 1 The Wisdom of African Sages; 2 The Proverb and Oral Society; 3 Ethnic Identity as a Political Resource; 4 Ibn Khaldun: A Dialectical Philosopher for the New Millennium; 5 Zara Yacob: A Seventeenth-Century Ethiopian Founder of Modernity in Africa; 6 Critical Rationalism and Cultural Traditions in African Philosophy; 7 Ideology and African Political Culture; 8 Normative Instability as Source of Africa's Political Disorder; 9 Good Government Is Accountability
10 Society and Democracy in AfricaNotes; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary
This rich collection brings together many of the leading authorities on African political philosophy to present a variety of perspectives on this rapidly growing field. They seek to show that African philosophy can serve African people as a moral activity guided by the principles of practical reason in addressing problems of the basic structures of social, political, and economic institutions
