The purpose of this volume is to provide original and critical essays on the interface between knowledge and being (as conceived in African worldviews), with particular reference to the role ontological commitments has in the production of knowledge in Africa. It hopes to achieve this by seeking contributed chapters that reflect on such questions as: what is being as conceived from the perspective of, say, an African culture? How does knowledge emerge and relate to an African ontological commitment? Are there ways of knowing, beyond incantation, divination, fortunetelling and so on, peculiar to, and part of the everyday life of the African? What could pass as (an) African theory of knowledge?
In responding to these questions, and similar ones, the present volume seeks well written papers that go beyond a description of knowledge practices in African societies, by employing critical, conceptual and rigorous analyses characteristics of the analytic/ordinary language tradition to engage the very nature and essence of knowledge as understood by indigenous African peoples.
The themes to be addressed by contributed chapters include, but not limited to:
Ontological commitments in African spaces and knowledge production
Being and Knowing in Africa Spaces
Being as the object of knowledge in Africa Spaces
Ways of knowledge production among African peoples
African cultural practices and ways of knowing
Senses of knowing among indigenous Africans in relation to Ontological commitments
Systems of knowledge practice among African peoples
Definition(s) of knowledge from an African cultural perspective
African epistemology and the Analytic/Ordinary language tradition
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