Pascah Mungwini, "African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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Oral Traditions in African Philosophy
There are a lot of oral narratives about almost every aspect of existence like the origin of the ethnic self, the origin of human beings. The reason why societies organize as it is, most of these you find them in any. You find the oral stories or oral sources that any existence. So when you look at them, you can begin to reconstruct a narrative that may actually assist in laying the foundation upon which our thoughts were laid. Whether it is metaphysical or ethical or well-advised foundations have to do with aesthetics and beauty.
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