The Congolese philosopher, poet, novelist and bold advocate of African knowledge has died in the US where he lived and taught at Sandford and Duke universities since 1979
Survival of the fittest misunderstood and misused fuels unchecked competitiveness, which is exacerbated by social media
Students need to learn creative and critical thinking, so they can work with AI, while they are at university and in the world of work
African societies are organised around the requirements of duty, while Western societies are organised around individual rights
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is not
Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation
In his latest book, philosopher John Gray examines how cats live according to their nature — and how us humans could benefit from emulating their (c)attitude
Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism
‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy
How we live has changed – we cannot avoid the threat of death brought by the coronavirus
Black women must not compromise their commitment to ending white supremacy
Celebrating the first ‘black’ or ‘African’ woman to get a doctorate in philosophy raises critical issues
White people should take responsibility for what they’ve done to black people and feel remorse
To question someone’s authority to speak on their own identity and inwardness is truly questionable.
The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa appears to be falling apart over Africanising a Eurocentric viewpoint.
The divergence of democracy and capital will defy reason and politics will become brutal survivalism.
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings from 1755 could have well been written today, about South Africa.
The revolutionary philosopher fought racism and colonialism, but he was not a violent man.
Why is Mabogo More, probably the "most frequently cited philosopher living in South Africa today", almost unknown in the country?
Ubuntu is a central idea in post-apartheid South Africa, but scholars disagree on whether it informs the Constitution or undermines it.
Six books aiming to revive the self-help genre are themselves in need of help, says Michael Titlestad
<b>Stuart Jefferies</b> chats to Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher who combines theories of anarchy, communism and Lady Gaga with aplomb.
No philosophy department in the country is doing more to train black postgraduates than UJ, says Professor Thaddeus Metz, head of the department.
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/ 23 September 2008
Julian Baggini looks at a new series of practical philosophy books that try to help us live better lives