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Théophile Obenga in a 2009 photograph. Théophile Obenga (born 1936 in the Republic of the Congo) is professor emeritus in the Africana Studies Center at San Francisco State University. He is a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. Obenga is an Egyptologist, linguist, and historian.
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 ...
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]
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]
He was quite knowledgeable of the History of the DRC and Africa. He was a fervent Africanist scholar who shared many points of view in common with other contemporary African public intellectuals like CheikhAnta Diop, Theophile Obenga, Achille Mbembe and Mudimbe Vumbi Yoka, whom he very much acknowledged in his writings and lectures.
African philosophy is philosophy produced by African people, philosophy that presents African worldviews, or philosophy that uses distinct African philosophical methods. African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as metaphysics , epistemology , moral philosophy , and political philosophy .
[1] [3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. [7] [8] His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility". [1] From 1974 he taught philosophy at Wellesley College in the US with a particular focus on personhood and African philosophy. [1]
Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.