Phenomenology in an African Context

<p><b>The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.</b></p><p>African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method with its various approaches to studying the seminal structures and meaning of human experience has been a cornerstone in the thought of African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji Tsenay Serequeberhan Achille Mbembe D. A. Masolo and Mabogo More as well as proponents of Africana philosophy such as W. E. B. Du Bois Frantz Fanon Lucius Outlaw and Lewis Gordon. Technically however the term African phenomenology is not used as widely or introduced as systematically as Africana phenomenology. This anthology aims to fill this gap by exploring contributions and challenges to phenomenology in its African context and demonstrating the differences this context makes to the practice of phenomenology. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field-including Hountondji Serequeberhan Mbembe More Gordon and M. John Lamola-the sixteen original essays here address the relation of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy postcolonial/decolonial discourse and deliberations within the international phenomenological community.</p>