Displacement and Solidarity: Reflections on African Phenomenology, Interview with Abraham Olivier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUwuaefXAk
#africanphilosophy #phenomenology #displacement #Positionality #community #communality #Ubuntu #liberation #solidarity #colonialism #Apartheid #epistemicide
Altägyptische Philosophie: Sprache, Denken und geschichtliche Verflechtungen
Interview mit Amr El Hawary
Language of the Interview: German
Conducted by Anke Graness
#africa #africanphilosophy #ancientegypt #decolonization #Egypt #multilingualism #philosophy
Teaching Philosophy in Senegal: An Experience of Decolonizing the Minds, Lecture by Bado Ndoye
Part of the Workshop Places of African Philosophies
#africanphilosophy #colonialism #IslamicPhilosophy #marxism #senegal
n his lecture "Teaching Philosophy in Senegal: An Experience of Decolonizing the Minds", Prof. Bado Ndoye offers a critical reflection on the historical, political, and epistemic dimensions of philosophy teaching in postcolonial Senegal. Tracing the persistence of French curricular models and the dominance of Marxist universalism in Senegalese academic philosophy, Ndoye highlights recent efforts to re-center African intellectual traditions, including the rediscovery of figures such as Senghor and Cheikh Anta Diop. He further emphasizes the significance of Islamic philosophy and postcolonial thought as avenues for decentering Western paradigms. The lecture ultimately argues for a truly inclusive conception of the universal, grounded in the plural contributions of all cultural traditions.
Philosophizing in Many Languages: Translation, Proto-Philosophy, and Middle Voice Agency
Research Talk with Rolf Elberfeld
https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/07/18/philosophizing-in-many-languages/
#africanphilosophy #agency #Heidegger #japanesephilosophy #multilingualism #persian #language #translation
As a follow-up to his lecture “Philosophy and the Plurality of Languages” in the series Philosophizing in African Languages, Rolf Elberfeld engaged in a rich research talk with colleagues and fellows at the Center for Advanced Studies. The discussion continued the lecture’s core argument that the diversity of languages is fundamental to the practice of philosophy. In a dialogical setting, the participants explored how philosophical thinking is embedded in language, how concepts travel across linguistic worlds, and what it means to philosophize in African languages and other tongues.
Between Faith and Justice: Philosophizing as an African Nun
Interview with Dr. Christiana Idika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9buPp0K8lw
Language of the Interview: English
Conducted by Jordan Kynes
#africanphilosophy #christianity #church #Faith #identity #justice #mercy
Philosophizing in African Languages: Past, Present, Future
Lecture by Anke Graness
July 17, 2025, 2:15 pm (CEST)
Cultural Campus, Aula & Live Stream
#africanphilosophy #Decolonization #IndigenousLanguages #language #multilingualism #PhilosophyOfLanguage
The African continent was often denied recognition as the home of philosophical schools, traditions or concepts – in part because African languages were considered too underdeveloped to form abstract concepts or grasp complex relationships.This was one of the arguments used by the European colonial powers to introduce the respective colonial languages as lingua franca and languages of education in their colonies, which led to the marginalization of the indigenous languages in many African countries – in political discourse, in the public sphere, but also in science, art and philosophy. It is not least against this background that controversial debates are being held in Africa about the significance of language for philosophizing, the importance of philosophizing in African languages (also as a contribution to decolonization) and the possibilities and limits of such an undertaking.The lecture traces some positions in the debates from the past and present, from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Kwasi Wiredu to Chike Jeffers and the positions represented in our lecture series in the summer semester 2025, and attempts to give an outlook on future research.
The Linguistic Politics of Ethiopian Philosophy:
Navigating Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization between Ge’ez, Amharic and English
Fasil Merawi (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Jonathan Egid (SOAS University of London)
July 10, 2025, 2:15 pm (CEST)
Cultural Campus, Aula & Live Stream
#africanphilosophy #amharic #Ethiopia #geez #linguistics
#politics
Wrestling with Knowledge: Perspectives from the Wolof Tradition
Research Talk with Monika Rohmer
By taking the figure of the wrestler as a starting point, Rohmer’s presentation raised fundamental questions about the definition of philosophy, the nature of knowledge (xam-xam in Wolof), and the practice of intercultural philosophy.
Double Lecture on Alexis Kagame’s Philosophy
Chantal Gishoma (Bayreuth University)
Kayisabe Vedaste (Catholic Seminary Kabgayi)
July 3, 2025, 2:15 pm CEST
www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/...
#africanphilosophy #alexiskagame #christianity #epistemology #kinyarwanda #linguistics #poetry #Rwanda
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