Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy

Contents
Foreword: A Historic First
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Notes
Listening to Ourselves
Dëgg ak ludul dëgg: Waxtaan diggante Soxna ak
càmmiñam Ngóór
Truth and Untruth: A Conversation Between Soxna
and Her Friend Ngóór
The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity
	Being and Time
	The Ethiopian Situation
	Cyclicality of Time
	Time and Fate
	From Cyclical Time to Teleological Time
	Ethiopia and Modernity
	Modernity and Renewal
	Notes
The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity
	Being and Time
	The Ethiopian Situation
	Cyclicality of Time
	Time and Fate
	From Cyclical Time to Teleological Time
	Ethiopia and Modernity
	Modernity and Renewal
	Notes
Ngero ok Rias: Kaka Puonj mar Ngero Chalo,
Kendo Kaka Ngero Opogore gi Pimo Wach
	Wach M’Otelo
	Chuny Wach
	Tienge mag Ngero
		Ngeche ma yot
		Ngeche ma tek
	Notes
A Proverb Never Lies: On the Nature of Proverbs
and How They Differ from Propositions
	Introduction
	The Text
	Types of Proverbs
		Simple Proverbs
		Complex Proverbs
	Notes
Ang’o Man e Nying’? Okange Ang’wen Mag
Nyinge e Oganda Luo
	Wach Mokwongo
	Awendo Ok Onego E Yiege
	Okang’ Mokwongo: Nyinge Michako Nyathi ka Pod Yom
	Okang mar Ariyo: Nyinge Lek gi Juogi
	Okang’ Mar Adek: Nyinge mag Ranyis Anyuola
	Okang’ Mar Ang’wen: Nyinge Pakruok
	Wach Mogik
	Notes
What’s in a Name? Four Levels of Naming among
the Luo People
	Introduction
	A Guinea Fowl Should not Abandon Its Feathers
	The First Level: Names Given to Infants
	The Second Level: Names from Dreams and Ancestral Names
	The Third Level: Names That Show Kinship
	The Fourth Level: Praise Names
	Conclusion
	Notes
Kũgeria Mĩario: Atumia, Ciana, Mbũri, Mĩgũnda
	Gĩtongoria
	Mĩikarĩre
	Ĩcunjĩ Cia Hau Kabere
	Kũimbũria Icunjĩ na Makinya ma Gũkũra
	Hitho ya Ciugo—Gũcĩrumbũyia
	Riika na Maũndũ Marĩkonie
	Kũrigicania Miario—Aka na Maũndũ Mao
	Mĩeke na Itheri—Mĩhaka na Mĩaramano
	Gũtũma na Gũchokanĩrĩria
	Kũrĩkĩrĩria—Ciugo Cia Kũrigĩrĩria na ũtaarani
	Concluding Caveat
	Notes
Conversations: Women, Children, Goats, Land
	Introduction
	Culture and Tradition
	Social Divisions of the Past
	Investigating the Stages of Growth and Emerging Divisions and Groups
	Words and Hidden Meanings —Interrogation and Exposure
	Age-Sets and Related Matters
	Complicating the Discussion—Women and Their Experiences
	Gaps and Spaces —Limits and Oportunities
	Weaving Loose Ends
	Notes
Okwu na Uche
	I. Mmalite
	II. Filosofi n’asusu Igbo?
	III. Okwu na Uche
		III.a. Uche bu Aku
		III.b. “Central Igbo”: Ngozi na nsogbu
		III.c. Amamihe di n’iche n’iche
		IV. Usoro Mkpakori Okwu
		V. Okwu na Uwa
		VI. Mmechi
		Notes
Word and Mind
	I. Introduction
	II. Philosophy in Igbo Language?
	III. Word and Thought
		III.a. Thought is Wealth
		III.b. “Central Igbo”: Its Advantages and Problems
		III.c. There Are Different Types of Knowledge
	IV. Logic of Dialogue
	V. Word and World
	VI. Conclusion
	Notes
	Apendix 1
	Apendix 2
Papa ne Bɔne
Good and Evil
	Note
Contributors
	Editor
	Authors
	Translators
Index