From InfiniteLoom
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