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Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. Africana Philosophy includes many writers and authors who are not trained in philosophy.
Africana philosophy includes the philosophical ideas, arguments and theories of particular concern to people of African descent. Some of the topics explored by Africana philosophy include: pre-Socratic African philosophy and modern day debates discussing the early history of Western philosophy, post-colonial writing in Africa and the Americas, black resistance to oppression, black existentialism in the United States, and the meaning of "blackness" in the modern world.
Branches of Africana philosophy
Branches include: African philosophy, black existentialism, double consciousness, black liberation theology, and womanism.
List of Africana philosophers
- Malcolm X
- Linda Martin Alcoff
- Anita L. Allen
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Robert Bernasconi
- Jean-Godefroy Bidima
- Robert E. Birt
- Steven Biko
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Tommy J. Curry
- Angela Davis
- Martin Delany
- Frederick Douglass
- Alain Locke
- Charles Mills
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Frantz Fanon
- Antenor Firmin
- Nigel Gibson
- David Theo Goldberg
- Lewis Gordon
- Kwame Gyekye
- Leonard Harris
- Paulin Hountondji
- C.L.R. James
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John H. McClendon
- V.Y. Mudimbe
- Lucius Outlaw
- Tommie Shelby
- Dwayne Tunstall
- RA Washington
- Kwasi Wiredu
- Cornel West
- Michele Moody-Adams
- Adrian Piper
- Kenneth Allen Taylor
- Laurence Thomas
- Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
- William Fontaine
- Marcus Garvey
- Aimé Césaire
See also
- African philosophy
- Philosophia Africana
- Double consciousness
- Black existentialism
- Postcolonialism
- Black liberation theology
- Critical race theory