ABSTRACT
This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent.
Bringing together key voices from across the field of African philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge across the continent and how they are rooted in Africans’ ontological sense of being and self. At a time when moves to decolonize curricula are gaining momentum, this book shows how understanding the specific ways of knowing that form part of the every day life of the African, will play an important part in rebalancing studies of philosophy globally. Employing critical, conceptual and rigorous analyses of the nature and essence of knowledge as understood by indigenous African societies, the book ultimately asks what could pass as an African theory of knowledge.
This important guide to the connections between knowledge and being, in African philosophical thought, will be an important resource for researchers and students of philosophy and African studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Knowledge and Knowing in African Epistemology
chapter 2|13 pages
Knowledge and Truth as Interaction between the Knower and Being
part II|44 pages
On the Object of Knowledge in African Epistemology
chapter 4|16 pages
Understanding a Thing's Nature
chapter 6|14 pages
The Ontological Foundation of African Knowledge
part III|38 pages
Context-Discourse of African Epistemology
chapter 8|16 pages
From Ontology to Knowledge Acquisition in Africa and the Caribbean
chapter 9|12 pages
ElẸ́Ẹ̀rí as Omọlúàbí
part IV|40 pages
African Epistemology in Applied Context