Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.

Introduction -- The historical phase -- Western discourse on Africa -- Egyptology : an African response -- Afrocentricity -- Conclusion -- African philosophy as ethnophilosophy -- Tempels on Bantu philosophy -- African religions and philosophy -- Horton on African and western thought systems -- Other ethnophilsophers and general critiques -- The professional approach -- Ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy -- Myth and reality of African philosophy -- Traditional thought and modern philosophy in Africa -- Wiredu's truth as opinion -- A case against the professional school -- Philosophic sagacity --Sage philosophy and philosophic sagacity -- Relevance of sagacious reasoning -- Keita's objections -- Three ways of approaching philosophic sagacity -- Masolo on philosophic sagacity -- Odera Oruka's mission in African philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy and ethnophilosophy -- Consciencism -- Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism -- African socialism and federalism in post-colonial Africa -- African philosophical hermeneutics -- Universalism and particularism -- Hermeneutical orientation in African philosophy.