Rethinking Africa's Transcontinental Continuities

This volume of QUEST: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie considers Africa's transcontinental continuities, based on the Leiden 2012 international conference. Its prominent contributors include Coquery-Vidrovitch, Rowlands, Osha, Anselin, Li Anshan, Lange, and Van Beek - as well as the specialists Blazek and Berezkin. Our journal has always been a meeting place between philosophy and other disciplines, and this felicitous combination also marks the present volume. The Africanist establishment is largely partial to the splendid isolation and essentialisation of Africa / Africans; by contrast, a globalising, de-essentialising perspective informs this book. Here Africa and its inhabitants appear, at long last, as integral parts of the world as a whole, involved in a constant and complex process of exchange where Africa now gives, then takes; now (in Afrocentrist fashion) takes the initiative in global developments, then follows them.

• | Author: Wim Van Binsbergen
• | Publisher: Lulu.com
• | Publication Date: Dec 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 460 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 9078382449
• | ISBN-13: 9789078382447