ISSN 1011-226

Quest 

An African Journal of Philosophy

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

 

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IMPORTANT NOTICE (Dec. 2008): After some setbacks, by the end of 2008 we have finally been able to bring out as many as three new annual volumes of quest: 2006 (xx), 2007 (xxi) and 2008 (xxii). This brings the journal up to date again. Sanya osha edited a timely and fascinating special issue on african feminisms (xx – 2006) with a team of high-ranking contributors -- including some of the most prominent women intellectuals of Africa, and the prominent Nigerian philosopher Eze (♂). Wim van binsbergen edited a special issue on lines and rhizomes: the transcontinental element in african philosophies (xxi - 2007), as well as as a general volume xxii – 2008 under the title African philosophy and the negotiation of practical dilemmas of individual and collective life. We thank our authors, readers, publishers sending review copies, and subscription agents, for their patience and continued support of quest. As Editor, I also wish to thank my fellow members of the Editorial Team, Sanya Osha and Kirsten Seifikar, for their hard work and perseverance. As a sign of the continued resilience and quality of quest, I am pleased to announce that the prominent African / global philosopher Valentin Mudimbe, a regular contributor in recent years, has agreed to join our Advisory Editorial Board, to fill the place sadly vacated by the demise of the lamented Lolle Nauta; an obituary of the latter will appear in the imminent volume XXIII.

From among our readership, we look forward to submissions of papers for publication, and your subscriptions if you prefer the hard copies of our journal (full web access of all twenty-two annual volumes published continues to be free, world-wide); full sets of back copies are available in limited number. A new volume XXIII – 2009 is already on its way but it can use a few more contributions. Volume XXIII will be the last volume that is to have some institutional support from the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. The obvious next step is to find a permanent home for
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Volume XXII (2008)

 

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ISSN 1011-226X

QUEST

An African Journal of Philosophy/

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

Vol. XXII, No. 1-2, 2008

African philosophy and the negotiation of practical dilemmas of individual and collective life

editor for this volume: Wim van Binsbergen

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Editorial  
Editorial: African philosophy and the negotiation of practical dilemmas of individual and collective life                                                                      
by Wim van Binsbergen

 

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Table of contents
 

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Articles

 

DE LA GÉOPOLITIQUE DE LA CONNAISSANCE ET AUTRES STRATÉGIES DE DÉCOLONISATION DU SAVOIR                                                                                    
par Kasereka Kavwahirehi

 

7

AN INDIGENOUS YORÙBÁ (AFRICAN) PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
by Moses Òkè

 

25

LE DISCOURS D’ÉTAT SUR LE GÉNOCIDE: La mémoire du génocide peut-elle devenir une idéologie politique?
par Jean-Luc Malango Kitungano, S.J.

 

37

TRADITIONAL WISDOM – ITS EXPRESSIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS IN AFRICA AND BEYOND: Exploring intercultural epistemology,
by Wim M.J. van Binsbergen

 

49

LE PROBLÈME DU VIVRE-ENSEMBLE ENTRE LE MÊME ET L’AUTRE DANS L’ÉTAT POSTCOLONIAL D’AFRIQUE NOIRE                                                                  
par Lucien Ayissi

 

121

PHILOSOPHIE ET CRITIQUE PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUE DE L’ETHNISME AU CAMEROUN,
par Dieudonné Zognong

 

141

THE REALITY OF SPIRITS? A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE AKAN CONCEPT OF ‘MIND’,
by Louise F. Müller

 

163

QUEST laboratory

 

REFLECTIONS ON REV DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND POVERTY :‘What would King do?’,
by Joseph Osei

 

185

SUR LE RESPECT DE LA NATURE,
par Kwami C. Dikenou

 

207

DE LA DIS-CRIMINATION À L’IN-CRIMINATION: Démasquer en théorie,
par Sathya Rao

 

229

Reviews section

 

SCIENCES SOCIALES ET COOPÉRATION EN AFRIQUE, 2000, sous la direction de Jean Pierre Jacob (Julie Ndaya Tshiteku)
 

24

Francis B. Nyamnjoh, 2005, Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of BelonginG (F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo)
 

247

Osaghae, Onwudiwe & Suberu, eds., 2002, The Nigerian Civil War and its Aftermath (Sanya Osha)
 

253

Notes on contributors
 

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