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What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism ? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press
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The Invention of Africa, joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award, has assumed a place as one of the important books of African studies. --Journal of African History
An impressive demonstration of erudition with a balanced, frequently very perceptive, perspective on how intellectual constructs on Africa have developed and operate. --Journal of Contemporary African Studies
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An impressive demonstration of erudition with a balanced, frequently very perceptive, perspective on how intellectual constructs on Africa have developed and operate. --Journal of Contemporary African Studies
What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of "Africanism"? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses.
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date1990
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