Introduction: Contrasts and contests about philosophy Mogobe B. Ramose 1. Dialogue as the negation of hegemony: An African perspective Pascah Mungwini 2. Decolonisation and its discontents: Thoughts on the postcolonial African moral self Chielozona Eze 3. Challenging the dominant ideological paradigm: Can community engagement contribute to the central epistemic aims of philosophy? Sharli Anne Paphitis and Lindsay Kelland 4. Universalism and African philosophy Bernard Matolino 5. Thabo Mbeki, postmodernism, and the consequences Robert Kowalenko 6. Transforming the African philosophical place through conversations: An inquiry into the Global Expansion of Thought (GET) Jonathan O.

Chimakonam 7. Philosophy-in-Place and the provenance of dialogue Bruce B. Janz 8. Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework Martin Odei Ajei 9. This thing called communitarianism: A critical review of Matolino's Personhood in African Philosophy O.A. Oyowe 10. The Analytic appeal of African philosophy Jason van Niekerk 11.

Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida and inescapable colonialism: Reflections on African philosophy from the diaspora Bryan Mukandi 12. The politics of philosophy in Africa: A conversation Ward E. Jones and Thaddeus Metz 13. On the contested meaning of 'philosophy' Mogobe B. Ramose.