Publication of 25.1 of the APA Studies on Philosophy and the Black Experience

[Björn Freter]

Dear Colleagues!

I wanted to let you know that the new issue 25.1 of the APA Studies on Philosophy and the Black Experience (edited by Anthony and me) has just been published.

There is some really good stuff in there! We are celebrating the legacies of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Valentin-Yves Mudimbe. And we present a wonderful interview with Nigerian Philosopher Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob.

You can download the full issue here:

Volume 25, number 1 (fall 2025) 

This is the table of contents:

FROM THE EDITORS

Anthony Sean Neal and Björn Freter

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND INFORMATION

ARTICLES

Abiodun Paul Afolabi

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Making of a Globalectical Citizen

Siseko H. Kumalo

Thinking from the Ruins—African Thought Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Mudimbe, and the Archive

INTERVIEW

Björn Freter

Philosophy and the Existential Realities of Africa: A Conversation with Nigerian

Philosopher Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob

I hope you will enjoy this new issue! Let me know if you have any questions or if you are interested to contributing to a future issue!

Best!

Björn

Björn Freter, PhD

(he/him/his - see here for more information why)

https://www.bjornfreter.com/ 

Just published!

Volume 24.1 of the APA Studies on Philosophy and the Black Experience, the third volume under the editorship of Anthony Neal and myself, has been published!
https://www.apaonline.org/page/black_experience_apastudies

The volume 24.2 will be published within the next weeks!

Some recent publications!

»Radicalizing Ubu-ntu. Some Critical Thoughts on Mogobe Ramose’s Philosophy of Ubu-ntu and a Proposal for its Desuperiorization«, in: Kenneth Abudu, Kevin Behrens, Elvis Imafidon (eds.): »African Philosophy and Deep Ecology«, Routledge, 2025, 41-54, https://tinyurl.com/RamoseUbuntu

»Sophie Bọsẹdé Olúwọlé on Yorùbá Philosophy, Knowing, not-Knowing and the Pain of Letting Go«, in: Ada Agada, Emmanuel Ofuasia, and Bruno Yammeluan Ikuli (eds.): »Contemporary African Metaphysical Thought«, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024, 105-129, https://tinyurl.com/OluwoleYoruba
»Andro*-Superiorism. Anti-female* Thought and the Superhuman Fallacy in Western canonical Philosophy«, in: Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 4.1, 2024, 60-93, https://tinyurl.com/Androsuperiorism
»Onto-normative Monism in the ሐተታ (ḥāteta) of Zera Yaqob: Insights into Ethiopian Epistemology and Lessons for the Problem of Superiorism«, in: Peter Aloysius Ikhane, Isaac E. Ukpokolo (eds.): »African Epistemology: Being and Knowledge«, Routledge, London, 2023, 145-158, https://tinyurl.com/EthiopianEpistemology

Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivhase, Björn Freter (eds.): Handbook of African Philosophy
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-77898-9

Upcoming

»Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola’s Philosophy of Liberation«, in: Amara Esther Chimakonam and Dr. Christian Idika (eds.): »Her-storical Perspectives in African Philosophy«, Springer, Cham, 2025, tba

»Mogobe Ramose on Socrates Monologicus and Socrates Dialogicus. On the Importance and Restoration of Socrates for African Philosophy«, in: Siphiwe Ndlovu; Mutshidzzi Maraganedzha (eds.): [Festschrift Mogobe Ramose], UKZN Press, 2025, tba

»The Superhuman Fallacy and Desuperiorization«, in: The Co2libri collective (eds.): »Conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction«, Open Access Publication with de Gruyter Publishers, co-edited/coordinated by Andrea Fleschenberg, Kai Kresse, and N.N. further members of the collaborative in collective, to be published as Volume 44 of ZMO-Studien, by de Gruyter, 2025, tba