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Obenga was born in 1936 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. [1] Théophile Obenga has studied a wide variety of subjects and has obtained a wide range of degrees. His degrees include: M.A. in Philosophy (University of Bordeaux, France) M.Ed. (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.) M.A. in History (University of Paris, Sorbonne)
There is a rich and written history of ancient African philosophy - for example from ancient Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mali (Timbuktutu, Djenne). [1] [11] In general, the ancient Greeks acknowledged their Egyptian forebears, [1] and in the fifth century BCE, the philosopher Isocrates declared that the earliest Greek thinkers traveled to Egypt to seek knowledge; one of them Pythagoras of Samos, who ...
University of Florida Center for African Studies (CAS) is a center within of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Florida (UF). The Center provides teaching and research into issues of African languages, humanities, social sciences, agriculture, business, engineering, education, fine arts, environmental studies, conservation, journalism, and law.
Some of the topics explored by Africana philosophy include pre-Socratic African philosophy and modern-day debates discussing the early history of Western philosophy, post-colonial writing in Africa and the Americas, black resistance to oppression, black existentialism in the United States, and the meaning of "blackness" in the modern world. [1]
This was followed by a position as Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria [2] in 2020. Metz has supervised doctoral students from many different countries, [3] including Mpho Tshivhase the first African woman from South Africa to get a PhD in philosophy [4] [5] and Doreen Sesiro the first African woman from Botswana to ...
Universities aren’t supposed to be in the business of picking sides in political conflicts, yet Florida education leaders ordered a pro-Palestinian student group off campuses without considering ...
He went to Remo Secondary School, Sagamu from 1948 to 1953 and also to University of Ibadan from 1956 to 1960 and at the Durham University, England from 1961 to 1964.Lectured University Ibadan from 1964 to 1966 [3] Sodipo lectured in philosophy at the University of Lagos from 1966 [4] and taught at Obafemi Awolowo University from 1968 to 1982, where he became the first professor in African ...
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1]