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One question opens the door.
Reading does the rest.
Each week, Merisphere offers a text or a book through which to see a question concerning Africa and the world differently.
This week’s reading
African philosophy · OralityDo African tales and proverbs produce genuine concepts?
Orality is not merely an ornament of speech: it carries conceptions of justice, personhood, the world and the community.
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The book that develops this question: Philosophy in African Tales and Proverbs →The September journey
Four questions through which to enter Merisphere’s intellectual world.
- 01Can Africa become a place from which the world is thought?
- 02Why does African schooling fail despite the growing number of graduates?
- 03Can democracy become imperial?
- 04Do African tales and proverbs produce genuine concepts?
After this journey, a new reading from the collection is proposed each week, in dialogue with the questions shaping African and international affairs.