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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Emancipative Mission -- 1 The Terrain of African Philosophy -- Introduction -- Mapping the Terrain -- The Critique of Ethnophilosophy Revisited -- Conclusion -- 2 African Self-Apprehension -- Introduction -- Philosophy in Context -- Liberation and Self-(Re)discovery -- Conclusion -- 3 Philosophy and Intercultural Dialogue -- Introduction -- Dialogue and Philosophy -- Intercultural Philosophy -- Multiple Voices in Dialogue6 -- Conclusion -- 4 Recentering Africa: The Unfinished Promise of Decolonization -- Introduction -- Recentering Africa -- "Rhodes Must Fall"3 -- Self-Recovery -- Conclusion -- 5 Africa and World Philosophies: The Emerging Realities -- Introduction -- World Philosophies: The Emerging Reality -- The Ubuntu Tradition of Philosophy2 -- Ubuntu Emancipative Philosophy -- Different Streams-Multiple Voices -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Abstract
The topic of pan-Africanism today brings to the fore questions of the unfinished humanistic project of decolonisation in Africa. When Kwasi Wiredu (1996) calls for the need for conceptual decolonisation in Africa, he recognises the intellectual price the continent continues to pay as a result of conceptual confusions and distortions caused by a colonial conceptual idiom implanted in the African mind. Reflecting on the potential which the ideology of pan-Africanism holds for the continent's future, my position is that the same passion and energy which brought about political independence should now be redirected to the epistemic front. A new form of pan-Africanism on the intellectual front is required to galvanise Africans to develop and deploy in their thinking veritable categories of analysis born out of the experiences of being African in Africa. It is in the generation and application of these alternative epistemologies that the future of the continent lies.