Paulin J Hontondji

Title

Paulin J Hontondji

Birth Date

1942

Birthplace

Abidjan, Beninese, Beninois, Nigerian

Death Date

2024

Primary Sources

Hountondji, P. J. (2013). The Old And The New. Knowledge Production in Africa Today. Langaa RPCID.

Hountondji, P. J. (2008).Knowledge of Africa, Kowledge by Africans: Two Perpectives on African Studies. Revisto Critica de Cienias Socias 80, 149-160

Hountondji, P. J. (2007) (ed.). Endogenous Knowledge: Research Trails. Translated Ayi Kwesi Armah. Dakar: CODESRIA Books. ISBN 2-86978-040-0 ISBN 2-86978-041-9

Hountondji, P.J. (2002). The Struggle For Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa. Translation by John Conteh-Morgan. Foreword by K. Anthony Appiah. Ohio University Press. Electronic 978-0-89680-433-3.
https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Struggle+for+Meaning

Hountondji, P.J. (1996). African Philosophy: Myth and Reality, Second Edition, Indiana University Press. ISBN: 9780253113795.
https://iupress.org/9780253210968/african-philosophy-second-edition/

Hountondji, P. J. (1995) Producing knowledge in Africa today: the second Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola distinguished lecture, African Studies Review,38 (3), p. 1-10.

Hountondji, P. J. 1990. Scientific Dependence in Africa Today. Research in Africa Literatures, 21(3), 5–15.

Secondary Sources

Dübgen, F & Skupien, S. (2019). Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Universalism. Cham: Palgrave Pivot, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01995-2 

Irele, F.A. (2001). Hountondji. In R Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers. Blackwell. Accessed Jan 23, 2023.
https://www.wiley.com/en-au/A+ Companion +to+ the+Philosophers-p-9780631229674

Serequeberhan, T. (1994). The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy. Routledge.

Extra Resources

Paulin J. Hountondji is one of Africa's Greatest Thinkers. The Conversation, April. 2022. Accessed Jan 23, 2023.
https://theconversation.com/at-80-paulin-j-hountondji-is-one-of-africas-greatest-modern-thinkers-180617.

Paulin J. Hountondji, African Genius Awards: YouTube. Uploaded July 2022. Accessed Jan 23, 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYo_pwFVZm8.

Collection

Citation

“Paulin J Hontondji,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/41.

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