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Title:

Listening to ourselves : a multilingual anthology of African philosophy / edited by Chike Jeffers ; foreword by Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xx, 194 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Philosophy, African.

Other Authors:

Jeffers, Chike, 1982-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Good and evil / Kwasi Wiredu. The Ethiopian conception of time and modernity / Messay Kebede -- A proverb never lies : on the nature of proverbs and how the differ from propositions / D.A. Masolo -- What's in a name? : four levels of naming among the Luo people / F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo -- Conversations : women, children, goats, land / Betty Wambui -- Word and mind / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze -- Good and evil / Kwasi Wiredu.

Series:

SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies

ISBN:

1438447434 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438447438 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)810442727

LCCN:

2012037138

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)