Announcements
Conference Notice: Street Philosophy Workshop |
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| The Street Philosophy Workshop Series is organised with two goals in mind: to explore, interrogate and analyse the rich and thick philosophical concepts and ideas emerging from streets in communities and cultures around the globe about knowledges, aesthetics, being, existence, understandings of selves and others, assimilation and resistance; and to examine and analyse the intersection of, connections and disconnections between, and shared importance of, street philosophy and academic, armchair philosophy. This requires going beyond and overcoming deeply rooted binaries in traditional academic philosophy (e.g., academic-culture / street philosophy, individual-collective authorship in philosophy, and written-oral philosophy) in order to productively engage with the street as a site of existence where philosophical and existential thoughts on be-ing, existing and normativities and axiologies of existence flourish. The key objective is to have a workshop each year that explores some specific philosophical concept or idea that has become popular and important in the way people understand their being and existence in the streets of specific places and cultures and have rich conversations about how such concepts connect with academic philosophical concepts, what academic philosophy can learn from them, and what the streets can learn from academic philosophy. |
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Conference Notice: Barry Hallen Conference 2022 |
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| This Conference is to honour the contributions of Professor Barry Hallen, who has been a major contributor to the development of Philosophy and African Philosophy in the global academy. Participants and panel proposers should feel free to engage Hallen on any issues in African, African Diaspora or global South philosophical engagements. The organizers welcome critical and subversive decolonial interrogations of bogies and entrenched verities which continue to subjugate the gnosis and episteme of the global South – for example, the ghost of the idea of an “Africa South of the Sahara” that has refused to be banished from Western academy. | More... |
Conference Notice: GLOBAL AFRICAN STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN |
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| International Colloquium August 24-26, 2022 GLOBAL AFRICAN STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Much of the early research and studies on Africa was done by Europeans, who created westernized frameworks for the understanding of the continent’s historic, religious, social, intellectual, scientific, aesthetic and cultural situations, issues and challenges. Since then, there have been several initiatives by Africans and persons of African descent globally to own their (own/his/her) stories and narratives. Institutes of African Studies were established in Africa at the time when most African countries were becoming independent as an attempt to recover lost ground. The areas of study broadened into philosophical, social, political, religious, economic, cultural and aesthetic issues, with the objective of African Scholars being to present Africa on their own terms. In the 1960s, there were movements in the USA (and later Canada) that aimed to cover the void in areas of African-American ourstory, literature and culture. Recently, Institutes for African Studies have increased in number in Europe, and a few Centres have emerged in Asia. Latin American countries have largely remained behind in these developments – with the exceptions of Brazil and Cuba –and attempts to institutionalize these issues within Universities and Research Institutions have been stunted for lack of resources. There is a need to create a viable and sustainable platform for Academics, Policy Makers, Administrators and African Descendants generally in Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss and plan structured, institutional approaches to establishing, increasing and enhancing rigorous multi-and interdisciplinary Global African Studies programmes in these regions. In recognition of this need, the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), in collaboration with other institutions listed above will be holding a colloquium from August 24-26, 2022, under the theme: Global African Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean to Inform Ourstorical (sans doctrinaire Historical), Cultural, Educational and Policy Structures: Past, Present and Future. |
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Conference Notice: 2º COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE AS RELIGIÕES DE MATRIZ AFRICANA |
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| Os desafios enfrentados pelas religiões de matriz africana no contexto global – Como superar o néo-colonialismo e a intolerância religiosa na África e na Diáspora | More... |
Conference Notice: AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA PHILOSOPHY, IDENTITY AND CULTURE |
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| The conference pursues the theme of African and African Diaspora philosophy, identity and culture from various disciplines and contemporary perspectives. All themes relate to the way African and African Diaspora philosophy, identity and culture play a role in solving (or worsening) the social, political and economic challenges highlighted above. The conference also explores the relationship between African philosophy and culture in terms of how they conflict, collaborate, or otherwise configure each other as people are subjected to different life systems in global Africa. This conference has a broad temporal, geographic, and topical expanse. Papers are invited from multiple disciplines that speak to such issues, including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Media and Communication, English, History, Law, Peace Building, Political Science, Religious Studies, and more. | More... |
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Vol 14, No 1 (2022)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Achieving Global Justice through Decolonizing Human Dignity | Abstract PDF |
| Chika C. Mba |
| Caliban’s/Calherban’s Metaphysics: Shifting the Geography of Ontological Centers | |
| Paget Henry |
| National Character and the Narrative of Self-Image in Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Obasanjo’s My Watch | Abstract PDF |
| Adedoyin Aguoru, Ibrahim Odugbemi |
| January 6th, 2021: Where the Wild Things Are | |
| Robert Welshon |
| A Yoruba Perdurantist Account of Gender for Addressing Gender-Based Violence | Abstract PDF |
| Omobola Olufunto Badejo |
| The Existential Implications of Evil Suppressing Measures in Yoruba | Abstract PDF |
| Abidemi Israel Ogunyomi |
| Okolo on African Personality | Abstract PDF |
| Anayochukwu Kingsley Ugwu |