Wo? Kulturcampus, Hs 50 / Hohes Haus KC.50.3.02 (Aula), Domänenstraße, 31141 Hildesheim & Live Streaming
Wann? 14:00 Uhr (immer Donnerstags)
Thema: Philosophie in Afrika
Referent*in: Kai Kresse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) & Abdilatif Abdallah (Leipzig University)
Info:
The mutual influence of language and philosophizing has been a topic of debate for centuries. Do
languages determine how we think? Do certain languages suggest certain thought constellations?
Is translation a universal language?
To this theoretical debate, we want to respond with concrete examples of philosophizing in African
languages. The African continent is home to more
than 3.000 languages. With European
colonization, most of these languages have been marginalized in academic discourses at the
expense of English, French, and Portuguese.
Nevertheless, philosophy exists and has been existing for several thousand years in Indigenous
African languages and deserves our attention. Taking polylogue as a point of departure as a
philosophical method, we invite philosophers from around the world to introduce us to specific
forms of philosophizing in Africa. These include ancient traditions of philosophizing as recorded in
Egyptian hieroglyphs or Ethiopian manuscripts written in Ge’ez, as well as contemporary practices
of philosophizing in Sesotho, Kinyarwanda, or Yorùbá.
Programmübersicht:
8. Mai 2025
Kai Kresse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) & Abdilatif Abdallah (Leipzig University):
Swahili Philosophical Discourse in East African Lifeworlds: Introductory Reflections and Case
Studies from Contemporary Poetry
15. Mai 2025
Ousmane Kane (Harvard Divinity School):
The Islamic Archive and Intellectual History in Sub-Saharan Africa
22. Mai 2025
Monika Rohmer (Hildesheim University):
Wrestling with Philosophy: Mbër as a Point of Departure for Analyzing Philosophical Texts in Wolof
5. Juni 2025
Amr El Hawary (University of Bonn):
The Language of Glyphosophia: Philosophical Concepts in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Culture
19. Juni 2025
Richmond Kwesi (University of Ghana):
A Genetic-Analytic Approach to Philosophizing in Akan
26. Juni 2025
Abosede Ipadeola (Hildesheim University):
Philosophizing in Yorùbá: Exploring a People’s Weltanschauung
3. Juli 2025
Chantal Gishoma (University of Bayreuth):
La poétique du non-humain chez Alexis Kagame: une philosophie de la résistance (Alexis
Kagame’s poetics of the non-human: A philosophy of resistance)
Kayisabe Védaste (St Thomas Aquinas Seminary Kabyagi):
La parole comme expression épistémologique dans la philosophie d’Alexis Kagame (Speech as an
epistemological expression in Alexis Kagame’s philosophy)
10. Juli 2025
Fasil Merawi (Addis Ababa University) & Jonathan Egid (SOAS University of London):
The Linguistic Politics of Ethiopian Philosophy: Navigating Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization
between Ge’ez, Amharic and English
17. Juli 2025
Anke Graness (Hildesheim University):
Philosophizing in African Languages: Past, Present, Future
Weitere Informationen: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/04/07/philosophizing-in-african-languages-lecture-series/
