By Ngugi wa Thiongo. In: Research in African Literatures Volume 31, Number 1. In most of my publications, principally in Decolonising the Mind, Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams, and Writers in Politics, I have tried to argue that the language question is so crucial because language occupies a significant position in the entire hierarchy of the organization of wealth, power, and values in a society. [Full Text Article, html]

By Kwasi Wiredu. In: African Studies Quarterly, 1.4 (1997). By decolonization, I mean divesting African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from our colonial past. The crucial word in this formulation is “undue”. Obviously, it would not be rational to try to reject everything of a colonial ancestry. [Full Text Article, html]

By Olufemi Taiwo. In: African Studies Quarterly, 1.4 (1997). Hegel is dead! Long live Hegel! The ghost of Hegel dominates the hallways, institutions, syllabi, instructional practices, and journals of Euro-American philosophy. The chilling presence of this ghost can be observed in the eloquent absences as well as the subtle and not-so-subtle exclusions in the philosophical exertions of Hegel’s descendants. [Full Text Article, html]

Par Paulin Hountondji. In: Africa Development, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1, 2004, Special Issue on ‘Philosophy and Development’, CODESRIA. Paulin Hountondji aborde ici 10 questions thériques sur le rôle historique de la pensée critique dans l’établissement des paramètres d’une transformation économique, politique et technologique de la société africaine. [Full Text Article, pdf]

Boniface Kaboré (U. of Ottawa). 20th World Conference of Philosophy: PAIDAIA. Partant du principe que l’idéal démocratique est une norme universelle, la discussion au coeur de ce travail soulève une série de questions causuistiques liées à la mise en oeuvre concrète des démocratiques dans toute société humain, quels que soient ses particularismes socio-historiques et culturels. Cette démarche découle entièrement de l’hypothèse suivant laquelle le problème fondamental de la démocratisation, autrement dit de la domiciliation de l’idéal démocratique, se ramène à celui de son appropriation. [Full Text Article, html]

By Kwasi Wiredu. In: Polylog, Jahrgang 1, Nummer 2 (Dezember 2000). Wiredu discusses the use of the consensus principle for political theory and practice in Africa. According to Wiredu, a non-party system based on consensus as a central principle of political organisation in Africa could avoid the evident problems of both the one-party system and the multi-party system imposed by the West. [Full Text Article, html]

By Olusegun Oladipo. In: Polylog, Jahrgang 1, Nummer 2 (Dezember 2000). The goal of this article is to show that a currently viable adaption and transformation of the African democratic heritage could help to consolidate Africa’s multicultural societies. A central task in this process lies in the reconciliation of democracy and justice via the establishment of a consensus-oriented dialogue for decision-making, a constitutional legitimation of the rule of ethnic groups, and a decentralisation of political power, so that local and regional autonomy becomes possible. [Full Text Article, html]

By Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze. In: Polylog, Jahrgang 1, Nummer 2 (Dezember 2000). Drawing from various examples of contemporary African and global politics, Emmanuel Eze discusses and critically assesses Kwasi Wiredu’s recent plea for a ‘non-party democracy’ following the principle of consensus, which Wiredu understood to be shaped according to the features of the ‘traditional’ political system of the Asante in Ghana. [Full Text Article]

Von Paulin J. Hountondji. Was wird aus der Kultur im Zusammenhang einer globalisierten Wirtschaft? Was wird aus der kulturellen Identität, der kollektiven Selbstbestätigung, dem Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit zu ein und derselben Geschichte und dem Willen, diese Geschichte gemeinsam zu gestalten? Was wird aus der Forderung nach Selbstbestimmung? [Full Text Article, html]

By Messay Kebede. In: Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, Vol 1 No. 2, Summer 1999. [Full Text Article, html]