The ink of the scholars: reflections on philosophy in Africa

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Force of Living -- Bantu Philosophy: A Contradictory Text -- Ontology of Living Force -- Languages and Translation -- Proof by Aesthetics -- The Time we Need -- That Time we call African -- Words to Speak of Time -- To Foresee or to Anticipate -- Speech and Ink -- Sense of Urgency and the Passage to Writing -- Philosophy and Orality -- Meanings of Timbuktu -- Socialisms and Democracy -- The African Path to Socialism According to Nyerere -- Socialism, Consciencism, Spiritualism and Secularism -- Senghor and Humanist Socialism -- The Democratic Turn and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights -- Conclusion: Lessons from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back cover.