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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Ghanaian Tradition of Philosophy
by Kwasi Wiredu
PROLOGUE: Crisis in African Cultures
by W. Emmanuel Abraham
PART I AFRICAN IDENTITY
1. Sources of African Identity
by W. Emmanuel Abraham
2. Problems in Africa's Self-Definition in the Contemporary World
by Kwasi Wiredu
PART II KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
3. Knowledge and Truth: Ewe and Akan Conceptions
by N.K. Dzobo
4. African Symbols and Proverbs as Sources of Knowledge and Truth
by N.K. Dzobo
Part III ANTHROPOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS
5. Person and Community in Akan Thought
by Kwame Gyekye
6. The Image of Man in Africa
by N.K. Dzobo
7. Death and the Afterlife in African Culture
by Kwasi Wiredu
8. Immortality and the Nature of Man in Gra Thought
by Joyce Engmann
Part IV ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
9. Moral Foundations of an African Culture
by Kwasi Wiredu
10. Towards Moral Development in Contemporary Africa: Insights from Dangme Traditional Moral Experience
by J.N. Kudadjie
11. Values in a Changing Society: Man, Ancestors and God
by N.K. Dzobo
12. Traditional Political Ideas, Their Relevance to Development in Contemporary Africa
by Kwame Gyekye
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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