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Background

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Gyekye

Image

http://presbegm.faculty.udmercy.edu/Africaotherco.html

Texts

An Essay on African Philosophical Thought at Google Books

Presents traditional Akan philosophies (Ghana & Ivory Coast)
  • Being and Causality as horizontal and vertical
  • Human as okra (innermost essence: "All are Children of God--no one is a child of the earth); honhom (breath: tangible manifestation of soul); sunsum (spirit/mind/personality/dreamself: "He has sunsum."). [Note by commentator: African trinitarianism is folk philosophy.)

Beyond Cultures at Google Books

Groundworks for a philosophy of globalization