African philosophy
As part of the African Philosophy Month, hosted by the African Studies Centre from 3 November through 4 December 2025, the African Library has renewed its web dossier on African Philosophy.
In Africa, philosophy is deeply intertwined with intellectual traditions, religion, spirituality, arts, and everyday life. This web dossier does not aspire to cover the full breadth of African philosophies and world views. Instead, it offers a selection of resources through which it hopes to give the reader an impression of the richness of issues, traditions, individual philosophers, political thinkers, and artists in the field.
Special attention is given to literature related to African philosophy and its relevance for conflict resolution, peace, and security issues in Africa. This the subject of this year’s Stephen Ellis Annual Debate, the closing event of the African Philosophy Month on 4 December.
The dossier is introduced by former University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, dr. Pius Mosima. It concludes with a number of relevant web resources, notably a selection of recent web lectures.
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Introduction | General | Contemporary issues - Peace and security - Other | Professional philosophers and philosophical traditions | Political thinkers | Philosophy in arts and literature | Web resources
Introduction
African Philosophy refers to the rich and diverse intellectual traditions, systems of thought, and philosophical inquiries that emerge from the African continent and its peoples. It encompasses a wide range of approaches, including oral traditions, indigenous worldviews, critical responses to colonialism, and contemporary philosophical discourses. This web dossier consists of six sections: General, Contemporary Issues, Professional Philosophers and Philosophical Traditions, Political Thinkers, and Philosophy in Arts and Literature. In these sections you will find an overview of the history, major trends, key philosophical traditions, and current debates in African philosophy. It is designed as a starting point for students, researchers, and anyone interested in African intellectual heritage.
African philosophy has evolved significantly in the past decades and it is becoming a mature sub-discipline of philosophy in its own merit. Its history can be broadly categorised into precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial eras (a categorisation which is increasingly challenged as Eurocentric), each with distinct characteristics and thematic concerns. The ongoing development of African philosophy continues to be a dynamic process, characterised by internal debates, interdisciplinary engagement, and a commitment to addressing the complex realities of the African continent and its place in the world. In this web dossier we find numerous influential thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwame Gyekye, Paulin Hountondji, Achille Mbembe, V.Y. Mudimbe, Henry Odera Oruka, Sophie Oluwole, Kwasi Wiredu, and Mogobe Ramose, who have significantly shaped both African and global intellectual discourses. These thinkers address the ongoing intellectual, political, cultural, and ethical challenges facing Africa today. They build on both traditional African thought and modern philosophical tools to engage critically with African realities in a postcolonial and global context.
A crucial factor in the intellectual history of African philosophy is the influence of colonialism, racial prejudice and the denial of African rationality. Over the past decades African philosophers have tried to affirm African identity and humanity in a bid to challenge Eurocentric narratives. In these texts we find much discussions on the debates on the nature and identity of African Philosophy, by Hountondji, Oruka, Wiredu etc.; decolonisation of knowledge, by Biko, Eze, Fanon, Mbembe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wiredu etc.; personhood in African thought and Ubuntu, by Menkiti, Gyekye, Ramose etc.; language and philosophy, by Wiredu and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o; gender and African feminist philosophy, by Chimakonam and du Toit, Oyěwùmí, Nzegwu, and Amadiume; democracy, governance, and postcolonial governance, by Kwame Nkrumah (Consciencism), Julius Nyerere (Ujamaa), Wiredu (consensual democracy) etc.; ethics and moral philosophy, by Appiah, Oruka, Molefe etc.; African philosophy and globalisation, by Appiah, Mbembe etc.
Finally, in spite of apparent linguistic divides/boundaries between the major colonial language areas (Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone), African philosophers have had interactions and interfaces with these regions and also with the philosophical traditions rooted in cultures outside Africa. In this web dossier there are texts from Francophone African philosophers like Hountondji, Mbembe, Mudimbe et al., and Lusophone African Philosophy such as Filipe, Kajibanga et al., and those that have been translated into English like Amilcar Cabral. The dialogues between these linguistic fields give an intercultural dimension to African philosophy beyond the different colonial languages and methodological fields. Moreover, over the past decades, African philosophers have increasingly engaged in dialogues with philosophers beyond the continent. These intercultural conversations have helped to foster mutual understanding, challenge philosophical parochialism and enrich the global philosophical canon.
Pius Mosima
General
Afrikaanse filosofie/ Pius Mosima & Henk Haenen.
Gorredijk: Noordboek, 20??. (To be published shortly, on order)
Intercultural thinking in African philosophy : a critical dialogue with Kant and Foucault/ Marita Rainsborough.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
African philosophy and the quest for autonomy : a philosophical investigation/ Leonhard Praeg.
Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2020.
Philosophers beyond borders : an illustrated guide to a selection of 30 thinkers from the world / Saskia Pfaeltzer and Maria van Enckevort-Cijntje.
Leiden : African Studies Centre Leiden, 2020.
https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/mrmi6o/alma9939653223702711
Debating African philosophy : perspectives on identity, decolonial ethics, and comparative philosophy/ George Hull (ed.).
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
L'aurore de la philosophie négro-africaine du XXe siècle : oeuvres, clés, analyse/ Auguy Makey.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2019.
The Palgrave handbook of African philosophy/ Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola (eds.).
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
African philosophy/ Alena Rettová.
Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2016.
The ink of the scholars: reflections on philosophy in Africa/ Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Dakar : CODESRIA, 2016.
La philosophie négro-africaine : essai de présentation générale/ Hubert Mono Ndjana.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016.
Philosophical essays : Sartre's ethical view // pre-colonial African political leadership // critique of professional philosophy // the role of African philosophers // philosophic sagacity/ Yoseph Mulugeta Baba.
Addis Ababa : Yoseph Mulugeta Baba, 2016.
O que é filosofia africana?/ Víctor Kajibanga, Euclides André Mance and Reinaldo José de Oliveira.
Lisboa : Escolar Editora, 2015.
Vicarious reflections : African explorations in empirically-grounded intercultural philosophy/ Wim van Binsbergen.
Haarlem : Shikanda Press, 2015.
An introduction to African philosophy/ J. Chukwuemeka Ekei.
Awka : Pope John Paul II Major Seminary, 2014.
La pensée métisse : croyances africaines et rationalité occidentale en questions/ Edgar Ascher, et al.
Genève : Graduate Institute Publications, 2014.
African philosophy : critical dimensions/ Wilfred Lajul.
Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2013.
La philosophie africaine, hier et aujourd'hui/ Ernest-Marie Mbonda.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013.
Philosophies africaines/ Sévérine Kodjo-Grandvaux.
Paris : Présence africaine, 2013.
Philosophies et cultures africaines à l'heure de l'interculturalité, Anthologie, tome 1 & 2 / Michel Kouam and Christian Mofor, préf. de Fabien Eboussi Boulaga ; prés. de Hubert Faes.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2011.
Philosophie et géomancie : vers une philosophie originelle africaine/ Mamadou Lamine Traoré.
Bamako : Éditions Donniya, 2007.
L'Afrique à l'ère du savoir : science, société et pouvoir/ Jean-Marc Éla.
Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2006.
De la philosophie et des philosophes en Afrique noire/ Mamoussé Diagne.
Paris [etc] : Karthala [etc.], 2006.
Afrikanische Philosophie im Kontext der Weltphilosophie/ H. Kimmerle.
Nordhausen : Bautz, 2005.
Knowledge cultures : comparative Western and African epistemology/ Bert Hamminga, Anthony Appiah, Yoweri Museveni and Leszek Nowak.
Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.
African philosophy : new and traditional perspectives/ Lee M. Brown.
Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Pour une pensée africaine émancipatrice : points de vue du Sud/ Alexandre Mbandi.
Louvain-la-Neuve : Centre Tricontinental ; Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2004.
The African philosophy reader : a text with readings/ P.H. Coetzee and Abraham (Abraham Pieter Jacob) Roux.
London [etc.] : Routledge [etc.], 2003.
https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/1pfk69f/alma9939573004702711
La philosophie et l'africanité : critique d'un intellectualisme fermé/ Monu M. Uwodi.
Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2003.
Repenser la théologie africaine : le Dieu qui libère/ Jean-Marc Éla.
Paris : Karthala, 2003.
Africa define yourself/ Thabo Mbeki.
Cape Town [etc.] : Tafelberg [etc.], 2002.
A short history of African Philosophy/ Barry Hallen.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues/ Richard H. Bell.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
African philosophy : an anthology/ Emmanuel Eze.
Malden, Mass. [etc.] : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Philosophy from Africa : a text with readings/ Pieter (Pieter Hendrik) Coetzee and Abraham (Abraham Pieter Jacob) Roux.
Cape Town : Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 1998.
Postcolonial African philosophy : a critical reader/ Emmanuel Eze.
Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] : Blackwell, 1997.
African intellectual heritage : a book of sources/ Molefi Kete Asante and Abu Shardow Abarry.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
Philosophy for Africa/ Augustine Shutte.
Rondebosch : UCT Press, 1996.
African philosophy : selected readings/ Albert Mosley.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1995.
African philosophy in search of identity/ D.A. Masolo.
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press [etc.] ; Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
The hermeneutics of African philosophy : horizon and discourse/ Tsenay Serequeberhan.
New York [etc.] : Routledge, 1994.
Foundations of African philosophy : a definitive analysis of conceptual issues in African thought/ Godwin Sogolo.
Ibadan : Ibadan University Press, 1993.
La pensée métisse : croyances africaines et rationalité occidentale en questions/ Robin Horton.
Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1990.
Contemporary issues
Decolonize, humxnize/ Kathryn Toure, Roopal Thaker and Rama Salla Dieng (eds.).
Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2024.
Knowing - Unknowing: African Studies at the crossroads/ Katharina Schramm and Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (eds.).
Boston: Brill, 2024.
Nineteenth-century Ubuntu: black philosophy under the Nine Wars of Dispossession (1779-1878)/ Panashe Chigumadzi.
Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2024.
Pouvoir, droits et justice en Afrique : essais de philosophie politique appliquée/ Ernest-Marie Mbonda and Lukas K. Sosoe.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2024.
Using traditional African approaches in contemporary peacebuilding/ Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala and Geoff Harris.
In: The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa/ Jean Chrysostome Kiyala; Geoff Harris. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, p.44-79
African philosophy in an intercultural perspective/ Anke Graness, Edwin E. Etieyibo and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl (eds.).
Berlin, Germany : J.B. Metzler, 2022.
Human dignity in African philosophy: a very short introduction/ Motsamai Molefe.
Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
La responsabilité sociale du philosophe face à la guerre en Afrique : enjeux et perspectives/ Nestor Salumu Ndalibandu.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2022.
Sagesses du monde et médiation : sources philosophiques, actions en Afrique, Asie et Océanie/ Béatrice Blohorn-Brenneur.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2022.
La guerre rétablit-elle la justice ? : une investigation philosophique sur l'actualité de la vieille tradition de la guerre juste et de ses diversions/ Basile Ekanga.
Paris : Editions L'Harmattan, 2021.
Pour une vraie démocratisation des États africains : pluralisme et tolérance, une lecture de John Rawls/ Anaclet Bambala Mazina.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021.
Reflections on philosophy, politics and post-colonial African society/ George M. Carew.
Freetown : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2021.
The concept of peace, conflict and conflict transformation in African religious philosophy/ Christopher Appiah-Thompson.
In: Journal of peace education, vol.17, no. 2 (2020), p.161-185
Piliers d'une promotion de la paix chez Jean-Marc Ela et Achille Mbembe : pour une pastorale des jeunes en faveur de la cutlure de la paix au Cameroun/ Jean Baptiste Bikena Tonye.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2020.
What can Ubuntu do? A reflection on African moral theory in light of post-colonial challenges/ Motsamai Molefe and Nolubabalo Magam.
In: Politikon, vol.46, no. 3 (2019), p.311-325
L'Afrique face au retour de la guerre juste/ Emmanuel N. Babissagana and Stephen Kizito Forbi (eds.).
Yaoundé : Muntu Institute Press, 2018.
Conflicting values, Ubuntu philosophy and peace building: an African experience/ Philip Ogo Ujomu and Anthony I. Bature.
In: Culture and dialogue, Vol.6, no.2 (2018), p.174-190
The lessons of Ubuntu : how an African philosophy can inspire racial healing in America/ Mark Mathabane.
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.
A 'post-liberal peace' via Ubuntu?/ Patrick Tom.
In: Peacebuilding, vol.6, no.1 (2018), p.65-79
Towards a Tutuist ethics of war: Ubuntu, forgiveness and reconciliation/ Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues.
In: Politikon, vol.45, no.3 (2018), p.426-435
Ubuntu and the quest for conflict resolution in Africa Adeoye O. Akinola and Ufo Okeke Uzodike
In: Journal of black studies, vol.49, no.2 (2018), p.91-113
Changer le Cameroun par la philosophie : du tribalisme à l'émergence/ Maurice Djiongo.
Douala : Éditions NGOCE Productions, 2017.
A discourse on African philosophy: a new perspective on Ubuntu and transitional justice in South Africa/ Christian B. N. Gade.
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
Ubuntu en Nelson Mandela : Afrikaanse filosofie van verzoening/ Henk Haenen.
[Budel] : Damon, 2016.
What colonialism ignored : 'African potentials' for resolving conflicts in southern Africa/ Sam Moyo and Yoichi Mine.
Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016.
Mémoire et réconciliation post-conflictuellles en Afrique : apport de Ricœur/ Bilakani Tonyeme.
In: Le cahier philosophique d'Afrique, no. 13 (2015), p.43-62
Practising reconciliation, doing justice, building peace : conversations on Catholic theological ethics in Africa/ Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator.
Nairobi : Paulines Publications of Africa, 2013.
An African perspective on peace education: Ubuntu lessons in reconciliation/ Tim Murithi.
In: International review of education, Vol.55, no. 2/3 (2009), p.221-233
Daisaku Ikeda and voices for peace from Africa/ Henry. Indangasi and Masimu O. Hashimoto.
Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 2008.
On reason : rationality in a world of cultural conflict and racism/ Emmanuel Eze.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.
Historicité et rationalité de la démocratie africaine : essai de philosophie politique/ Charles Robert Dimi.
Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2007.
Ibuarụ : the heavy burden of philosophy beyond African philosophy/ Innocent I. Asouzu.
Münster : Lit Verlag, 2007.
Nouvelle Pensée Africaine : Revue Internationale des Sciences, Cultures et Patrimoines = New African Thought : International Journal of Science, Culture and Heritage/ Charles Binam Bikoï, Jean Eudes Biem and Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso (eds.).
Yaoundé : CERDOTOLA, 2024.
Well-being in African philosophy : insights for a global ethics of development/ Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller and A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.).
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2024.
African philosophy of education : issues and insights/ Kola Babarinde and Oludare Okikiola Olufowobi (eds.).
Ibadan : Safari Books, 2023.
Afrocentricidade : complexidade e liberdade/ Ergimino Pedro Mucale.
Maputo, Moçambique : Paulinas, 2023.
Beauty in African thought : critical perspectives on the Western idea of development/ Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller and A. C. M. Roothaan (eds.).
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2023.
African philosophy : emancipation and practice/ Pascah Mungwini.
London, United Kingdom ; New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Against decolonisation: taking African agency seriously/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
London : Hurst & Company, 2022.
L'heur de philosopher la nuit et le jour (2017) : Tome 3 : Quand philosopher c'est vivre/ Djibril Samb.
Dakar : L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2022.
L'heur de philosopher la nuit et le jour (2018) : Tome 4 : Quand vivre c'est philosopher/ Djibril Samb.
Dakar : L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2022.
African philosophy for the twenty-first century : acts of transition/ Jean Godefroy Bidima and Laura Hengehold (eds.).
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2021.
Can a liberal be a chief? Can a chief be a liberal? : some thoughts on an unfinished business of colonialism/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2021.
Critical conversations in African philosophy: Asixoxe - let's talk/ Alena Rettová, Benedetta Lanfranchi, Miriam Pahl, Benedetta Lanfranchi and Miriam Pahl.
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2021.
L'heur de philosopher la nuit et le jour (2019) : Tome 5: Qu'íl est difficile de rester humain/ Djibril Samb.
Dakar : Harmattan Sénégal, 2021.
L'heur de philosopher la nuit et le jour : Tome 1: premières méditations tilogiques/ Djibril Samb.
Dakar : Harmattan Sénégal, 2021.
Penser l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui ; avec Paulin Hountondji/ Roland Techou and Bernardin Boko.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021.
African personhood and applied ethics/ Motsamai Molefe.
Makhanda : NISC, 2020.
Logic and African philosophy: seminal essays on African systems of thought/ Jonathan O Chimakonam.
Wilmington, DE: Vernon Art and Science Inc, 2020.
Postcoloniality, globalization, and diaspora : what's next?/ Ashmita Khasnabish (ed.).
Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2020.
Afrotopia/ Felwine Sarr.
Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
African philosophical currents/ John Murungi.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Contemporary African philosophers : a critical appraisal/ Wilfred Lajul.
Kampala, Uganda : Makerere University Press, 2018.
Contemporary African social and political philosophy : trends, debates and challenges/ Albert Kasanda Lumembu.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Débat philosophique/ Blaise Bayili (ed.).
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2018.
The intellectual imagination : knowledge and aesthetics in North Atlantic and African philosophy/ Omedi Ochieng.
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
L'heur de philosopher la nuit et le jour : Tome 2/ Djibril Samb.
Dakar Les Nouvelles éditions africaines du Sénégal 2018. - Essais: monde d'hier, monde de demain
Ka Osi Sọ Onye/ Jonathan Chimakonam and Edwin Etieyibo.
Wilmington: Vernon Art and Science Inc, 2018.
Ondjango : filosofia social e política Africana/ Arminda Fernando Filipe.
Luanda Sul, Angola : Publicações ECO7--Investimentos, Lda, 2018.
Y'en a marre! : philosophie et espoir social en Afrique/ Kasereka Kavwahirehi.
Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2018.
Penser et écrire l'Afrique aujourd'hui/ Alain Mabanckou and Achille Mbembe.
Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2017.
Perspectives in African intercultural philosophical studies/ Joseph A. Agbakoba (ed.).
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2017.
Ibuanyidanda : a complementary systematic inquiry : reflections on Innocent Asouzu's African philosophy/ Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu.
Saarbrücken : Lap Lambert Publishing, 2016.
African philosophy : an ontologico-existential hermeneutic approach to classical and contemporary issues/ Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu.
Jos : Augustinian Publications, 2015.
Atuolu Omalu : some unanswered questions in contemporary african philosophy/ Jonathan O. Chimakonam.
Lanham : University Press of America, 2015.
Metaphilosophy or methodological imperialism? : the rationale for contemporary African philosophy with reference to Oromo philosophy/ Yoseph Mulugeta Baba.
Nairobi, Kenya : CUEA Press, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, 2015.
Philosophie et développement : de la philosophie de questionnement du développement aux perspectives de l'émergence/ Antoine Manga-Bihina and Issoufou Soulé Mouchili Njimom.
Paris : Éditions l'Harmattan, 2015.
Africa must be modern : a manifesto/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
Bloomington [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Njikọka amaka : further discussions on the philosophy of integrative humanism : a contribution to African and intercultural philosophies/ G. O. Ozumba and Jonathan O. Chimakonam.
Calabar : 3rd Logic Option Publishing, 2014.
Philosophy and African development : theory and practice/ Lansana Keita.
Dakar : CODESRIA, 2011.
https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/1pfk69f/alma9938082967102711
How colonialism preempted modernity in Africa/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2010.
Africa's quest for a philosophy of decolonization/ Messay Kebede.
Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2004.
Professional philosophers and philosophical traditions
Partiality and impartiality in African philosophy/ Motsamai Molefe and Jörg Löschke. 
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2022.
African philosophy and the epistemic marginalization of women/ Jonathan Chimakonam, Louise du Toit and Jonathan O Chimakonam.
United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
Dix penseurs Africains par eux-mêmes/ Seloua Luste Boulbina.
Alger : Chihab éditions, 2016. - Interviews with Valentin Yves Mudimbe, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Paulin Hountondji, Issiaka-Proper Latoudji Lalèyê, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Alassane Ndaw, Mamoussé Diagne, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Achille Mbembe.
L'europhilosophie face à la pensée du Négro-Africain : suivi de Thèses sur épistémologie du réel et problématique néo-pharaonique/ Pathé Diagne.
Dakar : Sankoré, 1981.
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Anton Wilhelm Amo : lumière noire, pour un universalisme réconcilié/ Driss Gharmoul.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021.
Anton Wilhelm Amo's philosophical dissertations on mind and body/ Stephen Philip Menn and Justin E. H. Smith (eds.).
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Anton Wilhelm Amo : the intercultural background of his philosophy/ Jacob Emmanuel Mabe and J. Obi Oguejiofor (transl.).
Nordhausen : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2014.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah/ Christopher J. Lee.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
As if : idealization and ideals/ Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2018.
The lies that bind : rethinking identity, creed, country, color, class, culture/ Anthony Appiah.
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
The honor code : how moral revolutions happen/ Kwame Anthony Appiah. 
New York, N.Y. [etc.] : Norton, 2010.
Experiments in ethics/ Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Cambridge, MA [etc.] : Harvard University Press, 2008. - The Mary Flexner lectures on the humanities.
Cosmopolitanism : ethics in a world of strangers/ Kwame Anthony Appiah.
London : Penguin, 2007.
Thinking it through : an introduction to contemporary philosophy/ Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2003.
In my father's house : Africa in the philosophy of culture/ Kwame Anthony Appiah.
New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, ou, la philosophie comme quête de la liberté/ Charles Ossah Eboto and Louis-Dominique Biakolo Komo (eds.).
Paris : L'Harmattan Cameroun, 2024.
L'affaire de la philosophie africaine : au-delà des querelles/ Fabien Eboussi Boulaga.
[S.l.] : Éditions terroirs ; Paris : Karthala, 2011.
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, la philosophie du Muntu/ Ambroise Kom.
Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2009.
La dialectique de la foi et de la raison : hommage à Pierre Meinrad Hebga/ Fabien Eboussi Boulaga.
Yaoundé : Éditions Terroirs, 2007.
La crise du Muntu : authenticité africaine et philosophie : essai/ Fabien Eboussi Boulaga.
Paris : Présence Africaine, 1977.
Maduabuchi F. Dukor
African freedom : the freedom of philosophy/ Maduabuchi F. Dukor.
Lagos, Benin, Ibadan, Jos, Port-Harcourt, Zaria : Malthouse Press, 2021.
Theistic humanism of African philosophy : the great debate on substance and method of philosophy/ Maduabuchi F. Dukor.
Lagos, Benin, Ibadan, Jos, Port-Harcourt, Zaria : Malthouse Press, 2021.
African philosophy in the global village : theistic panpsychic rationality, axiology and science/ Maduabuchi F. Dukor.
Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010.
Ethiopian philosophy
The Hatata inquiries : two texts of seventeenth-century African philosophy from Ethiopia about reason, the creator, and our ethical responsibilities/ Zareʼa Yāʻeqob, Walda Ḥeywat, Ralph Lee (ed./transl.), Mehari Worku (ed./transl.), Wendy Laura Belcher (ed./transl.), Jeremy R. Brown (ed.) and Dag Herbjørnsrud (writer of preface).
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024.
Philosophy in Africa now / Volume 1, African philosophy in Ethiopia / eds.: Bekele Gutema, Charles C. Verharen./ Bekele Gutema and Charles C. Verharen.
Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University Philosphical Studies, 2012. - Philosophy in Africa now.
The source of African philosophy: the Ethiopian philosophy of man/ Claude Sumner.
Stuttgart : Steiner, 1986. - Äthiopistische Forschungen.
Classical Ethiopian philosophy/ Claude Sumner.
Addis Ababa : Commercial Printing Press, 1985.
Ethiopian philosophy/ Claude Sumner.
Addis Ababa : Commercial Printing Press, 1974-.
Feminist philosophy
African intersectionalities and decolonisation of African women's and gender studies/ Olajumoke Yacob‐Haliso.
In: History compass, vol.23, no. 3 (2025)
Feminist African philosophy: women and the politics of difference/ Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola.
Oxford: Routledge, 2023.
We must learn to sit down together and talk about a little culture : decolonizing essays/ Sylvia Wynter and Demetrius Lynn Eudell (ed.).
Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2022.
The Palgrave handbook of African women's studies/ Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola (eds.).
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021.
Surfacing: on being black and feminist in South Africa/ Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon.
Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021.
African Americans and Africa: a new history/ Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Ain't I a woman : Black women and feminism/ bell hooks.
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Feminist theory : from margin to center/ bell hooks.
New York // Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Sylvia Wynter: on being human as praxis/ Katherine McKittrick.
Duke University Press, 2015.
Talking back : thinking feminist, thinking black/ bell hooks.
New York, New York // Oxfordshire [England] : Routledge, 2015.
We should all be feminists/ Amanda N. Adichie.
London : Fourth Estate, 2014.
Family matters : feminist concepts in African philosophy of culture/ Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Engendering African social sciences/ Ayesha Mei-Tje (Ayesha M.) Imam, Amina Mama and Fatou Sow.
Dakar : CODESRIA, 1997.
Re-inventing Africa : matriarchy, religion, and culture/ Ifi Amadiume.
London // New York : Zed Books, 1997.
Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society/ Ifi Amadiume.
London, England : Zed Books, 1987.
Kwame Gyekye
The unexamined life : philosophy and the African experience/ Kwame Gyekye.
Legon : Sankofa Publishing Company Ltd, 2004.
Tradition and modernity: philosophical reflections on the African experience/ Kwame Gyekye.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Paulin Hountondji
Paulin Hountondji : leçons de philosophie africaine/ Bado Ndoye and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (writer of preface). 
Paris : Riveneuve, 2022.
Combats pour le sens: un itineraire Africain/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Langaa RPCIG, 2013.
Sur la philosophie Africaine: critique de l'ethnophilosophie/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Oxford: Langaa RPCIG, 2013.
O antigo e o moderno : a produc̨ão do saber na África contemporânea/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Mangualde : Edicões Pedago, 2012.
La production du savoir dans l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui : l'ancien et le nouveau/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009.
La rationalité, une ou plurielle?/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Dakar : CODESRIA ; [S.l.] : UNESCO, 2007.
https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=5e491ab4-8577-3e39-8ce6-32bf476c3a82
The struggle for meaning : reflections on philosophy, culture, and democracy in Africa/ Paulin J. Hountondji and John Conteh-Morgan.
Athens, OH : Athens University Press, 2002.
African philosophy: myth and reality/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Les savoirs endogènes : pistes pour une recherche/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Paris : Karthala, 1994.
Producing knowledge in Africa today/ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Toronto : [African Studies Association], 1994.
Bilan de la recherche philosophique africaine : répertoire alphabétique = Philosophical research in Africa : a bibliographic survey / Partie 1: 1900-1985./ Paulin J. Hountondji.
Cotonou : Conseil Interafricain de Philosophie, 1988. - Bilan de la recherche philosophique africaine : répertoire alphabétique = Philosophical research in Africa : a bibliographic survey.
Dismas A. Masolo
Engaging with the philosophy of Dismas A. Masolo/ Thaddeus Metz and Wim van Binsbergen.
Haarlem : Shikanda Press, 2014.
African philosophy as cultural inquiry/ Ivan Karp and D.A. Masolo.
Bloomington, Ind. [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2000.
African philosophy in search of identity/ D.A. Masolo.
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press [etc.] ; Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1994. - African systems of thought.
John Mbiti
A new analysis of Mbiti's 'The concept of time'/ Kibujjo M. Kalumba.
In: Philosophia Africana : analysis of philosophy and issues in Africa and the black diaspora (2005), vol. 8, no. 1, p. 11-19.
From an African ontology to an African epistemology : a critique of J.S. Mbiti on the time conception of Africans/ Moses Okè.
In: Quest : philosophical discussions : an international African journal of philosophy (2004), vol. 18, no. 1/2, p. 25-36.
A thematic comparison between four African scholars: Idowu, Mbiti, Okot p'Bitek & Appiah : what do they tell us about the existence of 'truth' and a 'High God', and why is their work significant?/ Louise Müller.
In: Quest : philosophical discussions : an international African journal of philosophy (2004), vol. 18, no. 1/2, p. 109-123 : ill.
A critique of John S. Mbiti's traditional African ontology/ G. Munda. Carew.
In: Quest : philosophical discussions : an international African journal of philosophy (1993), vol. 7, no. 1, p. 78-91.
John Mbiti on African time/ Mologo P. More.
In: Orita : Ibadan journal of religious studies (1986), vol. 18, no. 1, p. 5-15.
Ifeanyi Menkiti
Menkiti's moral man/ Oritsegbubemi Oyowe.
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2022.
Menkiti on community and becoming a person/ Edwin E. Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe.
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020.
Philosophy and the State in Africa: some Rawlsian considerations/ Ifeanyi A. Menkiti.
Philosophia Africana : analysis of philosophy and issues in Africa and the black diaspora (2002), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 35-51.
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
L'invention de l'Afrique : gnose, philosophie et ordre de la connaissance/ Valentin-Yves Mudimbe and Laurent Vannini (transl.).
Paris : Présence Africaine, 2021.
The Mudimbe reader/ Pierre-Philippe Fraiture and Daniel Orrells.
Charlotesville [etc.] : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe : a Jean Pierre Bekolo production/ Jean-Pierre Bekolo (dir.).
[Yaounde, Cameroun] : Jean-Pierre Bekolo Productions, 2014.
V. Y. Mudimbe: undisciplined Africanism/ Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.
The invention of Africa : gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge/ V.Y. Mudimbe.
Bloominton, Ind., [etc.] : Indiana University Press ; London : Currey, 1988. - African systems of thought.
L'odeur du père : essai sur des limites de la science et de la vie en Afrique noire/ V.Y. Mudimbe.
Paris : Présence africaine, 1982.
Alassane N'Daw
Penser l'Afrique noire/ Alassane N'daw and Djibril Samb.
Dakar : L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2019.
La pensée africaine : recherches sur les fondements de la pensée négro-africaine/ Alassane NʾDaw.
Dakar : Nouvelles Editions Africaines ; [Paris] : [diffusion Présence africaine], 1983.
Philosophie. Littérature grecque, anglaise, arabe, espagnole, française. Linguistique africaine/ Alassane. NʾDaw.
Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1973. - Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
L'Afrique : philosophie, littérature, histoire/ Alassane. NʾDaw.
Paris, 1972. - Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
Henri Odera Oruka - Sage philosophy
Odera Oruka and the right to a human minimum : an African philosopher's defense of human dignity and environment/ Michael Kamau Mburu.
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022.
Philosophic sagacity and intercultural philosophy : beyond Henry Odera Oruka/ Pius Maija Mosima.
Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016.
https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/mrmi6o/alma9939084509202711
Practical philosophy : in search of an ethical minimum/ Henry Odera Oruka.
Nairobi [etc.] : East African Educational Publishers, 1997.
Sagacious reasoning : Henry Odera Oruka in memoriam/ Anke Graness and Kai Kresse.
Frankfurt am Main [etc.] : Lang, 1997.
Sage philosophy : indigenous thinkers and modern debate on African philosophy/ Henry Odera Oruka.
Nairobi: Acts Press, African Center for Technology Studies, 1991.
Sophie B. Oluwole
Socrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà : two patron saints of classical philosophy/ Sophie B. Oluwole. 
Lagos : Ark Publishers, 2014.
Philosophy and oral tradition/ Sophie B. Oluwole.
Ikeja : ARK Publications, 1999.
The essentials of African studies/ Sophie B. Oluwole.
Akoka : General African Studies Programme, 1997.
Witchcraft, reincarnation and the God-head : (issues in African philosophy)/ Sophie B. Oluwole.
Ikeja [etc.] : Excel Publishers, 1992.
M.B. Ramose
Hegel's twilight : liber amicorum discipulorumque pro Heinz Kimmerle/ M.B. Ramose, dedicatee: H. Kimmerle.
Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2013. - Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie.
African philosophy through ubuntu/ M.B. Ramose.
Harare : Mond Books, 1999.
Marcien Towa
La question du goût chez Jean-Paul Sartre et Marcien Towa/ Fridolin Nke.
In: Annales de la Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines (2015), numéro 17, pages 291-304.
Conditions d'affirmation d'une pensée philosophique africaine moderne/ Marcien Towa.
In: Présence africaine : revue culturelle du monde noir (1981), no. 117/118, p. 341-353.
L' idee d'une philosophie negro-africaine/ Marcien Towa.
Yaoundé : CLE, 1979.
Léopold Sédar Senghor : négritude ou servitude?/ Marcien Towa.
Yaoundé, 1971.
Aimé Césaire, prophète de la révolution des peuples noirs/ Marcien Towa.
In: Abbia : revue culturelle camerounaise, no. 21, p. 49-57.
Civilisation industrielle et négritude/ Marcien Towa.
In: Abbia : revue culturelle camerounaise (1968), no. 19, p. 31-45.
La fonction normale de l'école dans la nation/ Marcien Towa.
In: Abbia : revue culturelle camerounaise (1963), no. 2 (May), p. 75-83.
Principes de l'éducation coloniale/ Marcien Towa.
In: Abbia : revue culturelle camerounaise (1963), no. 3 (sept.)
Kwasi Wiredu
Kwasi Wiredu and beyond : the text, writing and thought in Africa/ Sanya Osha.
Dakar : CODESRIA, 2005.
A companion to African philosophy/ Kwasi Wiredu, W.E. Abraham and Abiola Irele.
Malden, MA [etc.] : Blackwell, 2004.
The third way in African philosophy : essays in honour of Kwasi Wiredu/ Olusegun Oladipo.
Ibadan : Hope Publications, 2002.
Cultural universals and particulars : an African perspective/ Kwasi Wiredu.
Bloomington [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 1996.
Person and community/ Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye.
Washington, D.C. : The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1992.
Philosophy and an African culture/ Kwasi Wiredu.
Cambridge [Eng.] [etc.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Political thinkers
L'Afrique de Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon et Jean Marc Ela/ Anatole Fogou and François Wassouni (eds.).
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2023.
Pour un monde en commun : regards croisés entre l'Afrique et l'Europe/ Interviews with Achille Mbembe and Rémy Rioux, by Sévérine Kodjo-Grandvaux.
Arles : Actes sud, 2022.
The Pan-African pantheon : prophets, poets, and philosophers/ Adekeye Adebajo (ed.). 
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
The political thought of African independence : an anthology of sources/ Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker and Chelsea Schields.
Indianapolis [etc.] : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2017.
Special Issue : African political thought of the twentieth century: a reengagement/ Shiera S. el-Malik and Branwen Gruffydd Jones.
London [etc.] : Informaworld [Host], 2015.
Figures de la révolution africaine : de Kenyatta à Sankara/ Saïd Bouamama.
Paris : Zones, 2014.
African political thought/ Guy Martin.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
African social & political philosophy : selected essays/ Chukwudum B. Okolo.
Nsukka : Fulladu Publishing Company, 1993.
Cheikh Anta Diop ou l'honneur de penser/ Jean-Marc Éla.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 1989.
Steve Biko
Black consciousness : a love story/ Hlumelo Biko.
Johannesburg Cape Town London : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2021.
Selfless revolutionaries : Biko, black consciousness, black theology, and a global ethic of solidarity and resistance/ Allan Boesak.
Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2021.
Biko : a life/ Xolela Mangcu.
London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Steve Bantu Biko : beacon of hope : a documentary/ Nkosinathi Biko.
[S.l.] : Quattra Media Productions, 1999.
Bounds of possibility : the legacy of Steve Biko & Black Consciousness/ N. Barney Pityana.
London [etc.] : Zed Books [etc.], 1992.
Biko/ Donald Woods.
New York : Henry Holt, 1987.
Breaking the silence : Biko/ Olley Tsino Maruma, et al.
[S.l. : Tri-Pod production], 1987.
The testimony of Steve Biko/ Steve Biko and Millard Arnold.
London : Temple Smith, 1979.
Black consciousness in South Africa/ Steve Biko and Millard Arnold. 
New York : Vintage Books, 1978.
I write what I like/ Steve Biko and Aelred Stubbs.
London : Bowerdean Press, 1978.
Black viewpoint/ Steve Biko.
Durban : Spro-Cas Black Community Programmes, 1972.
Amilcar Cabral
The life, thought and legacy of Cape Verde's freedom fighter Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973) : essays on his liberation philosophy/ John Fobanjong and Thomas K. Ranuga.
Lewiston, NY [etc.] : Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
In the twilight of revolution : the political theory of Amilcar Cabral/ Jock MacCulloch.
London [etc.] : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
Unité et lutte/ Amílcar Lopes Cabral.
Paris : Maspero, 1980.
Aimé Césaire
Toussaint Louverture : the French revolution and the colonial problem/ Aimé Césaire.
Cambridge // Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2025.
Over het kolonialisme/ Aimé Césaire and Grâce Ndjako (writer of introduction translator)
Amsterdam : De Geus, 2022.
Resolutely black : conversations with Françoise Vergès/ Aimé Césaire (interviewee) and Françoise Vergès (interviewer).
Cambridge, UK // Medford, MA : Polity, 2020.
Discourse on colonialism/ Aimé Césaire.
New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000.
Toussaint Louverture : la Révolution Française et le problème colonial/ Aimé Césaire.
Paris : Présence Africaine, 1981.
Culture et colonisation/ Aimé Césaire.
In: Présence africaine : revue culturelle du monde noir (no. 8/10, numéro spécial, juin/novembre 1956, p. 190-205)
Cheikh Anta Diop
Confluence : spiritualité et sciences dans l'action de Cheikh Ibrahima Fall et la pensée de Cheikh Anta Diop : lumières ni d'Orient nu d'Occident : tome 1/ Alpha Youssoupha Guèye and Boubacar Boris Diop (preface).
[Senegal] : Les Éditions Omayal, 2021.
Confluence : spiritualité et sciences dans l'action de Cheikh Ibrahima Fall et la pensée de Cheikh Anta Diop : lumières ni d'Orient ni d'Occident : tome 2/ Alpha Youssoupha Guèye and Boubacar Diop (preface).
[Senegal] : Les Éditions Omayal, 2021.
La critique de la raison scientifique égypto-africaine chez Cheikh Anta Diop : temps pharaonique et post-pharaonique : le statut des mentalités en sciences/ Emmanuel Kabongo Malu.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021.
La pensée politique de Cheikh Anta Diop/ José Do-Nascimento.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2020.
Cheikh Anta Diop : le dernier des pharaons : essai/ Mama Yatassaye Ndiadé.
Libreville : Les Éditions Amaya, 2015.
Philosophie, science, religion : le combat de Cheikh Anta Diop/ Cheikh Anta Diop and Michel Ndoh.
Paris : Alfabarre, 2011.
Sciences et philosophie : textes 1960-1986/ Cheikh Anta Diop.
Dakar : IFAN Ch. A. Diop, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 2007.
L'Afrique de Cheikh Anta Diop : histoire et idéologie/ François-Xavier Fauvelle and Elikia M'Bokolo.
Paris : Karthala [etc.], 1996.
Civilization or barbarism : an authentic anthropology/ Cheikh Anta Diop, et al.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Lawrence Hill Books, 1991.
Philosophie science religion/ Cheikh Anta Diop. 
Dakar : IFAN, Université de Dakar, 1985.
L'Afrique Noire précoloniale : étude comparée des systèmes politiques et sociaux de l'Europe et de l'Afrique Noire, de l'Antiquité à la formation des états modernes/ Cheikh Anta Diop.
Paris : Présence Africaine, 1960.
Les fondements culturels techniques et industriels d'un futur état fédéral d'Afrique Noire/ Cheikh Anta Diop.
Paris : Presence Africaine, 1960.
Nations nègres et culture/ Cheikh Anta Diop.
Paris : Éditions Africaines, 1954.
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B Du Bois et l'Afrique : panafricanisme, paradoxes, mimétisme culturel et pacte colonial/ Mbongo Pasi Udumbula Pambi and Jean Mallaud.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2023.
Lines of descent : W. E. B. Du Bois and the emergence of identity/ Anthony Appiah.
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Africa/ W.E.B. Du Bois, et al.
Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2012.
Dusk of dawn : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept/ W. E. B. Du Bois.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Negro/ W.E.B. Du Bois.
Mineola, NY : Dover Publications, 2001.
W. E. B. Du Bois / [1]: Biography of a race, 1868-1919./ David L. Lewis.
New York : Holt, 1993.
Against racism : unpublished essays, papers, addresses, 1867-1961/ W.E.B. Du Bois and Herbert Aptheker.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts press, 1985.
W. E. B. Du Bois/ Jack Bailey Moore. 
Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981.
Africa, its geography, people, and products, and, Africa, its place in modern history/ W.E.B. Du Bois and Herbert Aptheker.
Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press, 1977.
Annotated bibliography of the published writings of W. E. B. Du Bois/ Herbert Aptheker.
Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus-Thomson, 1973.
The world and Africa : an inquiry into the part which Africa has played in world history/ W.E.B. Du Bois.
New York : International Publishers, 1965.
The souls of black folk : essays and sketches/ W.E.B. Du Bois.
London : Constable, 1905.
Frantz Fanon
Concerning violence : Fanon, film, and liberation in Africa, selected takes 1965-1987/ Göran Hugo Olsson and Sophie Vuković.
Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2017.
Frantz Fanon : figure emblématique du XXe siècle à l'épreuve du temps/ Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele and Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo (eds.).
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016.
Sur Fanon/ Bernard Magnier.
Montréal : Mémoire d'encrier, 2016.
Voices of liberation : Frantz Fanon/ Leo Zeilig.
Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2014.
Metamorphic thought : the works of Frantz Fanon/ Achille Mbembe.
In: African studies : a quarterly journal devoted to the study of African administration, cultures and languages, vol. 71 (2012), no. 1, p. 19-28.
Œuvres/ Frantz Fanon, et al.
Paris : La Découverte, 2011-2015.
Fanon, l'homme de rupture : essai/ Abdelkader Benarab.
Paris : AlfAbarre, 2010.
Frantz Fanon : une pensée toujours en acte/ Arezki Metref.
Paris : Association de culture berbère, 2009.
Black skin, white masks/ Frantz Fanon, et al.
New York : Grove Press, 2008.
The story of the cannibal woman : a novel/ Maryse Condé and Frantz Fanon.
New York : Atria Books, 2007.
The Fanon reader : Frantz Fanon/ Frantz Fanon and Azzedine Haddour.
London : Pluto Press, 2006.
Frantz Fanon de la Martinique à l'Algérie et à l'Afrique/ Joby Fanon and Roland Suvélor.
Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2004.
Frantz Fanon : a life/ David Macey.
London : Granta Books, 2000.
Frantz Fanon, portrait/ Alice Cherki. 
Paris : Seuil, 2000.
Fanon's dialectic of experience/ Ato Sekyi-Otu.
Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Frantz Fanon : black skin, white mask/ Isaac Julien and Mark Nash.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1995.
Toward the African revolution : political essays/ Frantz Fanon and Haakon Maurice Chevalier.
New York : Grove Press, 1988.
Fanon : in search of the African revolution/ L. Adele Jinadu.
London [etc.] : KPI, 1986.
Black soul white artifact : Fanon's clinical psychology and social theory/ Jock MacCulloch.
Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Holy violence : the revolutionary thought of Frantz Fanon : an intellectual biography/ Barbara Marie Perinbam.
Washington, D.C. : Three Continents press, 1982.
De verworpenen der aarde/ Frantz Fanon, et al.
Amsterdam : Van Gennep, 1978.
Frantz Fanon/ Irene Lefel Gendzier.
Paris : Seuil, 1976.
Frantz Fanon/
London : Panaf Books, 1975.
In: Panaf great lives.
Fanon/ Peter Geismar.
New York : Dial Press, 1971.
Sociologie de Frantz Fanon : contribution à une anthropologie de la libération/ Philippe Lucas and Frantz Fanon.
[Alger] : S.N.E.D. Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion, 1971.
L'oeuvre de Frantz Fanon : colonialisme et aliénation dans l'oeuvre de Frantz Fanon/ Renate Zahar.
Paris, 1970.
Black skin, white masks/ Frantz Fanon and Charles Lam Markmann.
London, 1967.
Pour la révolution africaine : écrits politiques/ Frantz Fanon.
Paris : Franco̧is Maspero, 1964.
Les damnés de la terre/ Frantz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Paris : Maspero, 1961.
Kenneth Kaunda
Kaunda on violence/ Kenneth David Kaunda and Colin M. Morris.
London : Collins, 1980.
Kenneth Kaunda : grondlegger van een christelijk humanisme in Zambia/ Steven Debroey.
Kasterlee : De Vroente, 1975.
Humanism in Zambia and a guide to its implementation. Part 2/ Kenneth D. Kaunda.
[Lusaka] : [Division of National Guidance], 1974.
Achille Mbembe
Brutalisme/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : La Découverte, 2020.
Politiques de l'inimitié/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : Éditions la Découverte, 2016.
Critique de la raison nègre/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : La Découverte, 2013.
Sortir de la grande nuit : essai sur l'Afrique décolonisée/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : La Découverte, 2010.
Notes sur le pouvoir du faux/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : Gallimard, 2002.
On the postcolony/ Achille Mbembe and A.M. Berrett.
Berkeley, CA [etc.] : University of California Press, 2001.
De la postcolonie : essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : Karthala, 2000.
L'état civil de Dieu et ses biographies dans l'Afrique contemporaine = The civil status and biographies of God in contemporary Africa/ Achille Mbembe.
Yaoundé : Codesria Publications, 1997/98.
The state, violence, and accumulation : the case of Sub-Saharan Africa/ Achille Mbembe and Janet. Roitman.
Leiden : Centre of Non-Western Studies CNWS, University of Leiden, 1989. - Occasional papers.
Afriques indociles : christianisme, pouvoir et État en société postcoloniale/ Achille Mbembe.
Paris : Karthala, 1988. - Chrétiens en liberté.
Kwame Nkrumah
Disentangling consciencism : essays on Kwame Nkrumah's philosophy/ Martin Odei Ajei (ed.) and Kwame Gyekye (writer of foreword). 
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
Theory of philosophical consciencism : practice foundations of Nkrumaism in social systemicity/ K. K. Dompere.
London, United Kingdom : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2017.
The political and social thought of Kwame Nkrumah/ Ama. Biney.
New York, NY [etc.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Consciencism in African political philosophy : (Nkrumah's critique)/ Chuba Okadigbo.
Enugu : Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1985.
The social and philisophical world-outlook of Kwame Nkrumah : prolegomena/ Dominic Kofi Agyeman.
Legon : Institute of African studies, University of Ghana, 1985.
Consciencism : philosophy and ideology for decolonisation/ Kwame Nkrumah.
London : Panaf, 1970.
Axioms/ Kwame Nkrumah.
London [etc.], 1967.
Consciencism : philosophy and ideology for decolonization and development with particular reference to the African revolution/ Kwame Nkrumah.
London : Heinemann, 1964.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Bergson postcolonial : l'élan vital dans la pensée de Léopold Sédar Senghor et Mohammed Iqbal/ Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Paris : CNRS, 2011.
Senghor philosophe : cinq études/ Jacques Chatué.
Yaoundé : Éditions CLÉ, 2009.
La philosophie politique de Léopold Sédar Senghor/ Aliou Camara.
Paris [etc.] : l'Harmattan, 2001.
Ce que je crois : négritude, francité et civilisation de l'universel/ Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1988.
Négritude et humanisme/ Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Paris : Seuil, 1964.
Philosophy in arts and literature
The African novel of ideas : philosophy and individualism in the age of global writing/ Jeanne-Marie Jackson. 
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Tiken Jah Fakoly : quand le reggae s'arrime à la pensée : Tome 1, La pensée universitaire/ Dieudonné Brou Koffi.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2018.
Globalectics : theory and the politics of knowing/ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Nairobi [etc.] : East African Educational Publishers [etc.], 2013.
In the name of the mother : reflections on writers & empire/ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Suffolk [etc.] : James Currey [etc.], 2013.
African art as philosophy : Senghor, Bergson and the idea of negritude/ Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Chike Jeffers.
London : Seagull Books, 2011.
Something torn and new : an African renaissance/ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
New York : BasicCivitas Books, 2009.
African literature as political philosophy/ M.S.C. Okolo.
London [etc.] : Zed Books ; Dakar : CODESRIA, 2007.
Léopold Sédar Senghor : l'art africain comme philosophie/ Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Paris : Riveneuve éditions, 2007.
African writers series/
[S.l.] : Proquest, Chadwyck-Healey, 2005-2011.
Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams : towards a critical theory of the arts and the State in Africa/ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
In: The Clarendon lectures in English literature.
Writers in politics : a re-engagement with issues of literature & society/ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Oxford : Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. [etc.] : Heinemann [etc.], 1997.
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Web resources
Thinking African Philosophy | Bado Ndoye | Spui 25, 9 May 2025
How to conceive of the characteristics, possibilities, and boundaries of contemporary African philosophy? Senegalese philosopher Bado Ndoye engages with this question and reflects on the challenge of philosophizing from Africa while undertaking the urgent task of decolonizing Western philosophical legacies. Moderation: Jamila Mascat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skpuGHwxtBo
Knowledge On/In African societies | Felwine Sarr | Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture, 25 October 2024
Senegalese academic Professor Felwine Sarr is a humanist, economist, musician, and writer, currently the Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University. His book Afrotopia is “a vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention in the 21st century”. Professor Sarr creates a contextualized utopia by relinking Africa’s philosophies to the current challenges of climate change, economic inequality, and green technologies. In his keynote speech on Knowledge on/in African societies: re-opening the paths, Sarr reflected on three key takeaways moving forward: (I) the essentiality of the geopolitics of knowledge in African countries, (II) the required epistemic shift from an African perspective, and (III) the need for building an African Ecology of Knowledge.
Excerpt: https://thecontrapuntal.com/knowledge-on-in-african-societies-felwine-sarr/
Video: https://youtu.be/l0Nia0JlYmU
Africa’s second struggle for freedom: what’s decolonisation got to do with it? | Olúfemi Táíwò | African Studies Centre Public Lecture, 7 September 2023
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University (USA), gave a well-visited and thought-provoking ASCL Seminar on 7 September 2023, entitled 'Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?' According to Táíwò, the overarching use of the concept decolonisation is unhelpful on several levels. It obscures African agency by focusing on the impact of the period of colonisation, just a few decades in the whole length of African history. He argues that applying the concept 'decolonisation' is actually a disservice to African empowerment, suffocating African intellectuals’ innovative thought.
Lecture text: https://www.ascleiden.nl/sites/default/pubfiles/africas_second_struggle_for_freedom_whats_decolonization_got_to_do_with_it_for_asc_leiden_website.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/fcRHIwqxteM
Colonialism & Philosophy in Africa | Grâce Ndjako | Studium Generale Delft, 10 March 2022
Grâce Ndjako is an author and philosopher at the University of Amsterdam. She also organizes events on Decoloniality and African and Afro-Caribbean philosophy through the Black Renaissance foundation. In this lecture, she takes us along a brief decolonial history of African philosophy, from the influence of Kant and Hegel to the search for an authentically African intellectual voice in the 20th century. What is African philosophy? What are its central values and perspectives, and how do they differ across the continent? To answer these questions, she digs into the colonial past. “The idea of an African philosophy is still controversial, with many in academia denying its existence and/or its possibility to exist.”
Video: https://youtu.be/5HLeyXDnQOM
Personal website: https://gracendjako.com/
Actuele Denkers: Sophie Olúwolé | Lezingen door filosofen Louise Müller en Angela Roothaan | Radboud Reflects, 6 October 2020 (in Dutch)
De Nigeriaanse filosoof Sophie Olúwolé (1935 – 2018) was een belangrijke Afrikaanse Yoruba filosofe met internationale bekendheid. Ze haalde als eerste vrouw in Nigeria een doctorstitel in de filosofie. Ze werd een voorvechtster van anti-koloniaal denken en van vrouwenrechten binnen de traditionele Yoruba cultuur. Haar kritiek op het idee dat westers denken superieur zou zijn aan het Afrikaanse, heeft de Afrikaanse klassieke filosofische orale traditie definitief op de kaart gezet. Olúwolé bestudeerde als eerste en weinige het Ifa corpus, wat een belangrijke rol speelt in de orale Yoruba traditie, in haar Afrikaans filosofische context. Filosofen Louise Müller en Angela Roothaan leggen uit wie Sophie Olúwolé was, en wat wij van haar gedachtengoed kunnen leren.
Video: https://youtu.be/P1PnqCpKr6g (In Dutch)
Africa's Building future on African Philosophy | Wole Soyinka | Third Biennial African Philosophy World Conference, 30 October 2019
Prof. Soyinka was giving a keynote speech at the Third Biennial African Philosophy World Conference October 30, 2019, will be taking place at the University of Dar es Salaam under the Theme of 'Building Africa’s Future on African Philosophy' the conference was Organised by Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Humanities (CoHU)
https://youtu.be/fXFq-PUOBEY
Defining African Philosophy | School of Pan African Thought
Clip of a live lecture by Dr. Imafidon of the School of Pan African Thought, an independent school that “brings together world leading intellectuals and scholars to empower a new generation of leaders to address the challenge of African union and development.”
https://youtu.be/ezjkvCdxPMw
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | History of African Philosophy
This article traces the history of African philosophy from the early 1920s to date, and tries to determine what inspired the beginning of the systematic African philosophy, and what are the similarities and differences with Western philosophy in this respect. It sets apart a concept called ọnụma interpreted as ‘frustration,’ which is regarded as the subset of wonder that jump-started the systematic African philosophy. The encyclopedia includes many other articles on African philosophy and individual philosophers.
https://iep.utm.edu/history-of-african-philosophy/
African Philosophy Society | Platform
The African Philosophy Society (APS) is a not for profit organisation. It is the official organisation representing the professional and non-professional interests and values of the community of African philosophers in Africa and in the diaspora. The philosophical community of African philosophers includes academic and non-academic (professional and non-professional) philosophers, employed or unemployed or under employed, and all levels of students who are engaged in African philosophy in Africa and around the world.
https://africanphilosophysociety.org/
Posted on 29 October 2025, last modified on 10 November 2025