This volume is intended to be a comprehensive anthology of essays on the history of
African philosophy, ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary, and on all the
main branches of the discipline, including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics,
ethics, and politics. The chapters are nearly all new. They have been written in
such a way as to be reflective, enlightening, and useful to both students and scholars.
Methodological concerns as manifested in contemporary controversies among African
philosophers on the proper relations between the traditional and the modern in
their discipline have been addressed. But pride of place belongs to substantive issues
of philosophy as these have occupied the African mind in communal conceptions and
individualized cogitations.