Year 11 · Spring 1 – Spring 2

Philosophy in Africa

Philosophy in Africa lessons

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What makes a tradition philosophical?

  • Is philosophy universal or shaped by culture?

Key terms

  • Ubuntu
  • Ethnophilosophy
  • Communalism
  • Oral tradition
  • Sage philosophy
  • Decolonisation
  • Epistemic injustice
  • Ancestral continuity
  • Relational selfhood
  • Coloniality
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Universalism / particularism
Assessment
Critical Response — Whose philosophy counts?
Homework
Research: Justice Systems
Career connection
Critical historiography (Decolonial Researcher)
Cover lesson
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Injustice

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