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Lindokuhle Shabane

Lindokuhle Shabane is a long-term fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” (GloPhi). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (2016), an Honours degree in Social Arts (2019), and a Master of Social Sciences in History (2020–2021), all from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

His research spans the history of philosophy, African philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. He engages philosophically in English, isiZulu and related languages, and French.

Shabane has published on conceptual decolonization and the political implications of logical contradiction, including the article “Conversational thinking as a method of conceptual decolonization: Arumaruka” (2021), and co-authored “Fear of explosion: or how logical contradiction can be weaponized politically” with Eva Arnaszus. 

History of Philosophy, African Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic 

Sub-Saharan Africa

English, IsiZulu (and cognates), French

“Conversational Thinking as a Method of Conceptual Decolonization,” in: Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 1 (2021).

“Fear of Explosion: Or, How Logical Contradiction Can Be Weaponized Politically” (with Eva Arnaszus), in: Interkulturelle Theologie 
50/2 (2024), Polyphone Epistemologien, pp. 9-30.

  • African Philosophy, Reparations, and Epistemic Justice (International Conference)
  • Travelling Concepts: Ubuntu as a Particular Universal (Lindokuhle Shabane)
  • Generative Contradictions: Logic, Language, and Philosophizing in isiZulu (Lindokuhle Shabane)
  • Transatlantic Resonances: Philosophical Entanglements between Africa and the Americas (Lecture Series)
  • Philosophizing in Sesotho (Language Focus)
  • Talks within the Ambivalence of Africa, Her Languages, and Philosophising in isiZulu – An Outside Perspective (Lindokuhle Shabane)
  • Philosophizing in isiZulu (Language Focus)
  • Podcast-Folge zu afrikanischen Schöpfungsmythen: Perspektiven aus Nigeria, Südafrika und Ghana
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