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Book SynopsisSauti! (Swahili for `Voice!’) is a new note in the call for Africa to extricate itself from its colonial past and create a unique identity in consonance with its own culture. In these pages, the author makes a cultural and spiritual journey enquiring into the future of the African continent
Table of ContentsAfrican philosophy and contemporary African experience: Of the four trends of African philosophy; a post-ethnological age in African philosophy; a new identity for African philosophy; Africa and the question of modernity; race and identity in contemporary Africa; the quest for an analytical approach in African philosophy. The Africanisation of languages and communication: The construction of reality through the medium of language; beyond logocentrism and Western linguistic hegemony; a brief contemporary sociolinguistic profile of African countries; semiotics and linguistic Africanisation. The discontents of Eurocentrism: Eurocentrism's prejudices about Africa; ruminations on Orientalism as a species of Eurocentrism. African ethical challenges in the contemporary world: Neo-humanism as an ethical challenge; ethical challenges on the African continent and in the Diaspora; Africa's normative responsibility towards the environment; on the responsibility for thinking justice. African development and revolutions in science: On creative theorising in the African scientific enterprise; Africa's possible contribution to scientific innovation; revolutions in science important for contemporary Africa; Africa and the aesthetic logic of globalisation.
