Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions
Episode 52
A conversation with Sam Imbo on approaching oral traditions as philosophy and the Ugandan thinker and poet Okot p'Bitek.
7 years, 5 months ago
HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa
Episode 53
An introduction to the “ethnophilosophy” approach inaugurated by Placide Tempels, its promises and potential pitfalls.
7 years, 6 months ago
HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa
Episode 51
Peter speaks to Souleymane Bachir Diagne about Islamic scholars in West Africa.
7 years, 6 months ago
HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate
Episode 48
Uthman Dan Fodio and his family were scholars, poets, and warriors whose jihad in 19th century Nigeria created the Sokoto Caliphate.
7 years, 7 months ago
HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy
Episode 47
The spread of Islamic scholarship in subsaharan Africa, focusing on intellectuals of the Songhay empire around the Niger River in the 15th-17th centu…
7 years, 7 months ago
HAP 11 - Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy
Episode 50
Teodros Kiros discusses the history of Ethiopian thought and how it has influenced his own work in political philosophy.
7 years, 8 months ago
HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat
Episode 49
Walda Heywat’s reaction to the thought of his teacher Zera Yacob, and the dispute over the authenticity of these two Ethiopian philosophers.
7 years, 8 months ago
HAP 09 - In You I Take Shelter - Zera Yacob
Episode 46
The 17th century Ethiopian rationalist Zera Yacob, hailed as the first modern Africana philosopher.
7 years, 10 months ago
HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy
Episode 45
Philosophy in Ethiopia, with translations of religious and philosophical texts into Ge’ez and a national epic called the Kebra Nagast.
7 years, 10 months ago
HAP 07 - Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry
Episode 44
Egyptioogist Richard Parkinson joins us to talk about the context and meaning of the Eloquent Peasant and other literary works of ancient Egypt.
7 years, 11 months ago