African epistemology : essays on being and knowledge / edited by Peter Aloysius Ikhane and Isaac E. Ukpokolo.

Introduction: On the Meaning and Discourse of African Epistemology -- Knowledge and Knowing in African Epistemology -- African Epistemology -- Knowledge Ontologised / Peter Aloysius IKHANE -- Knowledge and Truth as Interaction between the Knower and Being: Knowing in African Epistemology / Anselm `Kole JIMOH -- Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition / Elvis IMAFIDON -- On the Object of Knowledge in African Epistemology -- Understanding a Thing's Nature: Comparing Afro-Relational and Western-Individualist Ontologies / Thaddeus METZ -- Being as the Object of Knowledge in African Spaces / Wilfred LAJUL -- The Ontological Foundation of African Knowledge: A Critical Discourse in African Communitarian Ontology / Munamato CHEMHURU -- Context-discourse of African Epistemology -- Truth in African (Esan) Philosophy / Isaac UKPOKOLO -- From Ontology to Knowledge Acquisition in Africa and the Caribbean: What can be known for Certain? / Sandra McCALLA -- Ẹlẹ́ẹ̀rí as Omọlúàbí: The Interface of Epistemic Justification and Virtue Ethics in an African Culture / Abosede Priscilla IPADEOLA -- African Epistemology in Applied Context -- Onto-normative Monism in the ḥāteta of Zera Yaqob: Insights into Ethiopian Epistemology and Lessons for the Problem of Superiorism / Björn FRETER -- Personalism and an African Epistemology of Personhood / Philip EDEMA -- Knowledge, Being, and the Case for an African Epistemology / Dennis MASAKA.

"This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the philosophical theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by western philosophers, but this book shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent. Bringing together key voices from across the field of African philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge systems across the continent and how they are rooted in Africans' ontological sense of being and self. At a time when moves to decolonize curricula are gaining momentum, this book shows how understanding the specific ways of knowing that form part of the every day life of the African, will play an important part in rebalancing studies of Philosophy globally. Employing critical, conceptual and rigorous analyses of the nature and essence of knowledge as understood by indigenous African societies, the book ultimately asks what could pass as an African theory of knowledge. This important guide to the connections between knowledge and being, in African philosophical thought, will be an important resource for researchers and students of philosophy and African Studies"-- Provided by publisher.