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• Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy.
  
• Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition.
  
• Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

"Wiredu's discussion of culturally defined values and concepts, as well as his attention to such timely issues as human rights, makes this book invaluable interdisciplinary reading." --D. A. Masolo

Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu confronts the paradox that while Western cultures recoil from claims of universality, previously colonized peoples, seeking to redefine their identities, insist on cultural particularities. Wiredu asserts that universals, rightly conceived on the basis of our common biological identity, are not incompatible with cultural particularities and, in fact, are...

• Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy.
  
• Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition.
  
• Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.