Philosophy

Graduates in disciplines such as sociology, development, philosophy, gender and politics have the analytical tools to unpack social nuances, historical context and ethical…

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…

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