Africana Philosophy and the History of Philosophy in West

“Africana Philosophy” is meant to refer, collectively, to the forms of understanding and knowledge of Africans and African descendants, as well as to the way these traditions and practices have been and are pursued and expressed. Contributions by persons who are neither African nor African descended but whose works contribute to Africana Philosophy are also included. As African and African descendants are ethnically and culturally diverse and dispersed widely in space and time, even while sharing some distinguishing commonalities, Africana Philosophy does not refer to a shared fixed essence – racial or otherwise – that determines the identical cultural characteristics of all African peoples. Rather, “Africana” takes its departure from the socially conditioned anthropological fact that the varying raciality of African peoples share not only a relatively distinct gene pool, but, more importantly, share constitutive aspects of social and cultural life-worlds. The identification, study,...