Traditional wisdom–its expressions and representations in Africa and beyond Page 49 QUEST
: An African Journal of Philosophy/Revue Africaine de Philosophie XXII: 49-120 © 2008 the …

Aristotle) as creative practical knowledge that allows one to negotiate the contradictions of
human life (especially in less rule-governed domains manifesting uncertainty and …

When, nearly half a century after the end of colonial rule, an African university grants an
honorary degree to a prominent researcher from the former colonising country, this is a …

African Studies (and in general, regional studies in the humanities and social sciences) are
in the midst of a paradigm shift: instead of continuing to take the continent-centred definition …

My own interest in wisdom was kindled, more than half a century ago, when my elder brother
gave me an extensive introduction to the Presocratics (ancient Greek philosophers) for my …

In the context of a symposium on Healing and Spirituality, Radboud University Nijmegen, the
Netherlands (2007), the author was invited to put a number of questions before Edith Turner …

A few years before our conference, Professor Kurt Tauchmann of Cologne University,
Germany, has been so kind as to comment on my book draft on an Africanist application of …

During my recent visit to Zambia (July 2011), where I have conducted historical and
ethnographic fieldwork among the Nkoya people since 1972, I obtained a unique cult …

NOTE. Professor Kurt Tauchmann of Cologne University, Germany, has for many years
studied transcontinental continuities between sub-Saharan Africa, on the one hand, and …

Table 1 gives a systematic summary of the main branches of production which have existed
in Kaoma district since about 1800. In the light of the above discussion, I have distinguished …