Atuolu Omalu

Jonathan O. Chimakonam, PhD, teaches at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He specializes in logic and African philosophy and has published vastly on such topics. He is the author of Introducing African Science (2012), the producing author of Existence and Consolation (2015), and a co-author of Njikoka Amaka (2014).

The publication of philosophy from African scholars is always welcome, and this volume, edited by Chimakonam, is no exception. The title of this collection, which is derived from part of an Igbo proverb, might be loosely translated as 'explicating to the wise.' This volume features 14 essays—all but 3 published here for the first time—by 13 scholars representing the approach of the emerging Calabar School of Philosophy (http://africanphilcongress.com/), which focuses on a 'dialogical engagement' between tradition and modernity, universalism and particularism, and Western and African culture. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from logic to hermeneutics and ethics to transliteration. Many of the traditional themes of African philosophy appear, but usually with a new twist emphasizing the role of contemporary sociopolitical realities and seeking a functional synthesis of the 'useful'—both characteristic of the Calabar approach . . . The collection is nevertheless a very good introduction to a new generation of African philosophers.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Dating and Periodization Questions in African PhilosophyJonathan O. ChimakonamChapter 2: The Question of Being in African Philosophy: A Case for Ibuanyidanda OntologyInnocent I. AsouzuChapter 3: The Question of Moral Paradigm in African Philosophy: A Case for Communocentric EthicsMulumba I. ObiajuluChapter 4: The Knowledge Question in African Philosophy: A Case for Cogno-Normative (Complementary) EpistemologyJonathan O. ChimakonamChapter 5: The Logic Question in African Philosophy: Between the Horns of Irredentism and JingoismUduma O. UdumaChapter 6: The Criteria Question in African PhilosophyJonathan O. ChimakonamChapter 7: The Ideology Question in African Philosophy: A Case for Tradition and the Quest for Democracy in AfricaOlusegun OladipoChapter 8: African Philosophy: Some Basic QuestionsBruce B. JanzChapter 9: The Question of Cultural Imperialism in African PhilosophyEdwin EtieyiboChapter 10: The Transliteration Question in African PhilosophyGodfrey O. OzumbaChapter 11: The Question of Culture of Philosophy in AfricaAdebayo A. Aina and Olatunji A. OyeshileChapter 12: The Question of Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy and the Problem of the Language of African Philosophy: A Critique of Kwasi Wiredu and a Proposal for Conceptual Mandelanization in the Africa We KnowMesembe I. Edet Chapter 13: The Question of the West and the Rest of Us in African PhilosophyJoseph N. AgboChapter 14: The Future Question in African PhilosophyAda AgadaSelected BibliographyList of Contributors