Introduction

Guttorm Fløistad

1-7

African "philosophy"

deconstructive and reconstructive challenges

Lucius Outlaw

9-44

African philosophy

a brief personal history and current debate

H. Odera Oruka

45-77

African philosophy in context

a reply to Hountondji's "que peut la philosophie"

L. Keita

79-98

Myths, symbols and other life-worlds

the limits of empiricism

G. Munda Carew

99-120

The philosophical significance of bantu nomenclature

a shot at contemporary african philosophy

Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani

121-152

The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the akans

Kwasi Wiredu

153-179

Alexis Kagame and African socio-linguistics

D. A. Masolo

181-205

Old Gods, new worlds

some recent work in the philosophy of African traditional religion

Kwame Akroma, Ampim Kusi Appiah

207-234

The idea of art in African thought

K. Anyanwu

235-260

Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world

Mourad Wahba

261-275

African philosophy

its proto-history and future history

277-296