Introduction
Chapter 1: The nonhuman: Another history of African philosophy
Chapter 2: Lifeworlds of the postcolony: Between metaphysics and existence
Chapter 3: Àddina: A non-objective representation of "the world" in Boubacar Boris Diop's Doomi Golo
Chapter 4: A phenomenology of death
Chapter 5: African philosophies of violence
Chapter 6: Meanings of the nonhuman
Concluding words
Biography
Alena Rettová is Professor of African and Afrophone Philosophies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Prior to joining Bayreuth, Alena taught Swahili literature and African philosophy at SOAS University of London for fourteen years. Her publications include Afrophone Philosophies: Reality and Challenge (2007) and Chanter l'existence: La poésie de Sando Marteau (2013). Alena has co-produced a series of films about philosophy, Philosophical Journeys, filmed in the DRC, Rwanda, Czech Republic, and France.
