African philosophy: African philosophers, Africana philosophy, Wole Soyinka, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Chinua Achebe, John McDowell

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: African philosophers, Africana philosophy, Wole Soyinka, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Chinua Achebe, John McDowell, Makera Assada, Postcolonialism, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Black existentialism, Henry Odera Oruka, Black liberation theology, Africana womanism, Usman dan Fodio, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Al-Hajj Salim Suwari, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, Nana Asma'u, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Double consciousness, Alexis Kagame, Kwasi Wiredu, Zera Yacob, David Benatar, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Kwame Gyekye, Micere Githae Mugo, Paulin J. Hountondji, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Gaston Berger, Philosophia Africana, Walda Heywat, Ato Sekyi-Otu. Excerpt: Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe (born 16 November 1930) popularly known as Chinua Achebe ( ) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He is best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe writes his novels in English and has defended the use of English, a "language of colonisers", in African literature. In 1975, his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" became the focus of controversy, for its criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist". In 2011, The Guardian of London named...