Books by "Patrick K. Thornton"
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Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account.
THE DYNAMICS OF AFRICA (INDIGENUOS AFRICAN SYSTEMS)
by Patrick K. Kalifungwa
2025 · Xoffencer International Book Publication House
African philosophy before the 20th century was primarily conducted and transmitted orally as ideas by philosophers whose names have been lost to history. While early African intellectual history primarily focused on folk lore, wise sayings and religious ideas, it also included philosophical concepts such as the Nguni Bantu concept of Ubuntu in moral philosophy. Ubuntu often summarized by the phrase “I am because we are”, emphasizes the inter connectedness of individuals within a community. It contrasts with western individualism by priotizing communal values and the well-being of the group over the individual and is reminiscent of the wider phenomenon of African communalism found across the continent. African philosophy includes but often differs from Africana philosophy in that African philosophy usually focuses on indigenous knowledge systems and philosophical traditions native to the African continent. In contrast, Africana philosophy addresses the philosophical concerns experiences and identities of Africans in the diaspora, particularly in regions outside Africa such as the Americas and Caribbean. One particular subject that several modern African philosophers have written about is on the subject of freedom and what it means to be free or to experience wholeness. Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, some of which has been lost over time. Some of the world’s oldest philosophical texts have been produced in ancient Egypt written in Hieratic and on papyrus, c2200-1000BCE. One of the earliest known African philosophers was Ptahhotep an ancient Egyptian philosopher.