Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Revisiting the Question of Identity Defining African Philosophy In the Mirror of the Europe Questioning Coloniality Letting Indigeneity Flourish Chapter 1: Redefining a Philosophical Tradition Introduction The Dominant Understanding of a Philosophical Tradition Contesting Textuality Contesting Individual Authorship Contesting Literacy Revisiting the Graphocentric-Phonocentric Debate Contesting the Politics of Naming Contesting Transgenerational Coherency Contesting Whiteness What is a Philosophical Tradition? Conclusion Chapter 2: The Non-textuality of African Philosophy I: Orality Introduction Ontologizing Orality Language and Orality Oral Repositories and Transgenerationality The Epistemic Question Oral Philosophy and the Good Oral Philosophy, Knowledge, Truth and Doubt Oral Philosophy and Personhood Oral Philosophy and Beauty Conclusion Chapter 3: The Non-textuality of African Philosophy II: Symbolism Introduction Problematising the Aesthetic Hermeneutics African Arts, Symbols and Ontology The Philosophy of the Adinkra Symbols The Philosophy of Yoruba Textile Motifs The Philosophy of Zulu Symbols The Ontology and Aesthetics of Benin Bronzes Transcendence and Immanence in Shona Sculptures The Body as Text Conclusion Chapter 4: The Textuality of African Philosophy Introduction The Precolonial Legacy Text as Resistance Text as Defence Text as Mirroring the Other Text as Contemporary African Philosophy Conclusion Chapter 5: Philosophising Together: Communitarian African Philosophy Introduction Conceptualising Afro-communitarianism as Method Communing as Existential Ontology On Relational Cognition Communitarian Ethics The Power of Collective Agency in Knowledge Production Conclusion Chapter 6: Street Philosophy in Nigeria Introduction A Postcolonial Site of Collective Authorship Humour and the Existentiality of Suffering A Philosophy of Migration The Critique of Power Street Art and Aesthetics Conclusion Chapter 7: Rehumanising Philosophy in a Transhuman Age Introduction Text, AI and the Crisis of Relevance Reinvigorating Non-textual Possibilities Rehumanising the Textuality and Non-Textuality of Knowledge The Pedagogical Commitment Conclusion Bibliography Index.