Handbook of African Philosophy

This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy.  This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies. 

African Philosophy from a Multidisciplinary Perspective.- African Ethics

Elvis Imafidon (PhD) lectures in the Department of Religions and Philosophies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the Director of the Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies at the same institution and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His background is in the philosophy of difference, philosophy of corporeality, philosophy of healthcare, philosophy of disability, comparative philosophy, ethics, and ontology, primarily from African philosophical perspectives. He is the author and editor of several books including Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics (Lexington Books 2014), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (Routledge 2019), Handbook of AfricanPhilosophy of Difference (Springer 2020), and Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (Peter Lang 2022).

Mpho Tshivhase (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, existential uniqueness, personhood, and themes of love, autonomy, authenticity, death, aspects of race and feminism, as well as African ethics. Mpho has worked on different interdisciplinary institutional projects at the University of Pretoria that were hosted by the Center for Human Rights, the Human Sciences Research Council, and the Center for Advancement of Scholarship. She was a member of the Moralities Research group at the Bayreuth University in Germany where she was invited as a visiting scholar. Mpho recently completed a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is a Rresearch Associate in the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research: AI & Society Research Group.

Björn Freter (PhD) received his doctorate with his thesis, On Facticity and Existentiality in 2014 from Free University, Berlin, Germany. Until 2023 he was Lecturer for World Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK and works now as Visiting Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including pre-Socratic philosophy, Baroque and Classical German literature as well as Decolonization, White Supremacy and Veganism. His current main research project aims at the Desuperiorization of Philosophy by developing a radically anti-oppressive moral philosophy, and at the Foundation of Superaltern Studies, a research area investigating the western superiorist traditions and its self-representation as a global moral authority.