Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy

Ada Agada received his PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His first book, Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis, and Values in African Philosophy, has been highly praised for its originality and is a winner of the prestigious CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) award. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). He is currently writing a major monograph and a series of articles that ground consolationism in traditional and contemporary African thought while projecting the thought-system in an intercultural context. Agada is currently a researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and a senior researcher at the Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.

Introduction.- Part I: Some Metaphilosophical Issues Revisited.- Chapter 1. Ethnophilosophy and the Wellspring of Philosophy in Africa (Bruce Janz).- Chapter 2. A Wellspring of African Philosophical Concepts? The What and Why Questions in the Context of Interculturality (Ada Agada).- Chapter 3. What is 'Ethno' and 'Philosophy' in Ethnophilosophy? (Diana-Abasi Ibanga).- Chapter 4. Beyond the Universalist  Critique and the Particularist Defence of Ethnophilosophy (L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya).- Chapter 5. African Philosophy: With and Beyond Ethnophilosophy  (Aribiah David Attoe).- Chapter 6. Beyond Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy and in Defense of the Philosophical Viability of Ethnophilosophy (Edwin Etieyibo).- Chapter 7. The Case Against Ethnophilosophy (Anthony C. Ojimba).- Part II: Continuities and Discontinuities, the Past and the Present.- Chapter 8. Ethno-philosophical Currents in Kwame Gyekye's Philosophy (Hasskei M. Majeed).- Chapter 9. H. Odera Oruka's Philosophical Sagacity as a Variety of Ethno-philosophy (Pius Mosima).- Chapter 10. 'Ethnophilosophy' and Wiredu's Programme of Synthesis (Martin Odei Ajei).- Part III: Ethnophilosophy, System-Building, and Contemporary Expansion of Thought.- Chapter 11. African Ethno-ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (Elvis Imafidon).- Chapter 12. The Cultural Background of Ezumezu Logical System (Umezurike J. Ezugwu and Jonathan O. Chimakonam).- Chapter 13. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Ramose's Ubuntu Ontology of Be-ing Becoming (Ada Agada).- Chapter 14. Ethnophilosophical Tendencies in African Feminist Thought and Philosophy (Anke Graness).- Chapter 15. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Pantaleon Iroegbu's Uwa Ontology: A Hermeneutical Investigation (Jude Onebunne).- Chapter 16. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Asouzu's Concept of Missing Links (Maduka Enyimba and Ada Agada).- Chapter 17. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Conversational Thinking (Amaobi Nelson Osuala and Maduka Enyimba).- Chapter 18. The Challenge of the 'End of Metaphysics' for Ethnophilosophy: A Discourse on the Process Implication of the Metaphysics of Terror (Emmanuel Ofuasia).- Chapter 19. Ethical and Political Issues in Afro-Communitarianism (Isaiah A. Negedu).- Chapter 20. Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-Perspective Conversation (Elvis Imafidon, Bernard Matolino, Ada Agada, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Aribiah David Attoe, Fainos Mangena, and Edwin Etieyibo).- Index.