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African moral-political thought

Motsamai Molefe (Witwatersrand): A Defence of Moderate Communitarianism: A Place of Rights in African Moral-Political Thought. Suren Pillay (Western Cape): Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics. Katrin Flikschuh on what you should know about contemporary African philosophy: Debates over the cultural roots of philosophical concepts challenge the Western canon. “African philosophy is starting from scratch”: Richard Marshall interviews Ada Agada, author of Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Values in African Philosophy. Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker (Western Cape): What is the University in Africa for? Lewis Gordon on the African decolonial thought of Oyeronke Oyewumi. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on what Decolonizing the Mind means today.