Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 26 - Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy
Episode 63
An interview with Kai Kresse who discusses his efforts to do "anthropology of philosophy" on the Swahili Coast.
6 years, 8 months ago
HAP 25 - Wise Guys - Sage Philosophy
Episode 62
Henry Odera Oruka’s new method for exploring philosophy in Africa, based on interviews with wise individuals.
6 years, 9 months ago
HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy
Episode 61
Paulin Hountondji and other African philosophers criticize ethnophilosophy and advocate a universalist approach.
6 years, 9 months ago
HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition
Episode 60
An interview with Nkiru Nzegwu on matriarchy and gender fluidity in Africa.
6 years, 10 months ago
HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition
Episode 59
What archeology and ethnography tell us about the diverse and often ambiguous roles of men and women in traditional African societies.
6 years, 10 months ago
HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
Episode 58
Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.
6 years, 11 months ago
HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics
Episode 57
Emphasis on the value of community as a major theme in African philosophy.
6 years, 11 months ago
HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person
Episode 56
Traditional African ideas about personhood, which challenge assumptions about the relation between mind and body, self and other.
7 years ago
HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy
Season 1 Episode 55
Is traditional African religion in some sense monotheist, despite the worship of many divinities?
7 years ago
HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time
Episode 54
John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a present, and virtually no future…
7 years, 1 month ago