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This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide. The article projects a fundamental tension into the history of recent African philosophy: between optimism and idealism, showing in the development of normative concepts and a new philosophical vocabulary for Africa – a "conceptual mandelanization" (Edet 2015: 218), on the one hand, and a critical realism ensuing from the experience of African "simple, that is, flawed, humanity" (Nganang: 2007: 30), on the other. The article identifies prominent trends in African philosophy since 1994, including Ubuntu, the Calabar School of Philosophy, Afrikology, the Ateliers de la pensée, Francophone histories of African philosophy, and Lusophone political and cultural philosophy.

"In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres. Part one of the volume examines how African philosophy has reacted to burning issues, ranging from contemporary ethical questions on how to integrate technological advancements into human life; to one of philosophy's prime endeavours, which is establishing the conditions of knowledge; to eternal ontological and existential questions on the nature of being, time, memory and death. Part two reflects on the (re)definition of philosophy from an African vantage point and African philosophy's thrust to create its own canon, archive and resources to study African concepts, artefacts, practices and texts from the perspective of intellectual history. The volume aims to make a contribution to the academic debate on African philosophy and philosophy more broadly, challenging orthodox definitions and genres, in favour of a broadening of the discipline's self-understanding and locales. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African philosophy and comparative philosophy"--

Introduction: The Predicament of the Concept of Power in Africa / Hana Horakova# Section 1: Power as Political Domination # States and Social Contracts in Africa: Time, Space and the Art of the Possible / Paul Nugent# Meles and the Rest: Continuation of the Power Strategy in Ethiopia / Jan Záhoríik# Power and'Powerlessness in Somalia: Ethiopian Involvement and the Transitional Federal Government / Katerina Rudincová From Powerlessness to Power and Back: National Political Liturgies during the Sékou Touré Regime in Guinea / Ruth Mauri# Congolese Women's Power and Powerlessness in the Political Landscape / Albert Kasanda# Section 2: Power as Discourse and Social Practice # Philosophy of the Powerless: The Singer, the Sage, and Philosophy in Africa / Alena Rettová# The Power behind Representations: The World Bank and African Poverty Reduction from 1970-2000 / Vanessa Wijngaarden# English Power Dynamics in Contemporary South Africa / Stephanie Rudwick# The Social Construction of Charismatic Authority of Prophets from a Mutumwa Church in Lusaka / Katerina Mildnerová# In Place of Conclusion: The Power of the Powerless in Africa / Peter Skalnik#