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Colonial heritage or philosophical source? Update on the heritage of Bantu Philosophy

A Review Article of Beyond Bantu Philosophy. Contextualizing Placide Tempels’ Initiative in African Thought (Dokman and Cornelli eds.) and La Philosophie bantoue du Père...

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2024 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frantz Fanon, Nicolas Guillén, and Claudia Jones awards for contributions to philosophical...

Tendayi Sithole’s Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania

Mabogo Percy More is a philosopher who describes his work as “Azanian Africana existential philosophy” (110). Born in 1946, More was one of the...

Deloria’s God is Red and Liberationist Philosophies of Black Religion

2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vine Deloria Jr.’s God is Red: A Native View of Religion, which has recently been published in a...

Rising Up and Living on with Catherine Walsh

Catherine E. Walsh’s Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks (Duke UP, 2023) is, on the one hand, a report on the...

In Defense of the CROWN Act

Material in this article reproduces previously published research by the author. This research appears in: Amir Jaima, “In Defense of the Crown Act,” Philosophia 51,...

Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean...

In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in...

James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology

There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...

Meditations on Africatown, Part 2: On Cultivating Liberatory Fields of Vision

Part one of this post can be found here. I visited the Africatown Heritage House for the first time a short while ago. The new...

Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End

Charles Johnson is likely most well-known as a novelist, having won the National Book Award for The Middle Passage (1990) and later earning a...