@article{1443547,
      recid = {1443547},
      author = {Attoe, Aribiah D.,},
      title = {Groundwork for a new kind of African metaphysics : the  idea of predeterministic historicity /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed  "African metaphysics" remains a traditional affair, without  the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of  myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the  nature of being, God, causality, death, etc., have largely  remained the same and unchallenged, mainly due to the  hesitancy of some African scholars to question these  suppositions or build beyond them. In this book, Aribiah  David Attoe presents a unified African metaphysics that  first interrogates important notions held by many  traditional African thinkers, and then builds upon them to  propose a largely materialistic account of African  metaphysics. The book re-imagines and reconstructs the idea  of God, being, causality and death in African metaphysics,  tackling some of the problems associated with these  concepts in African thought. It also opens up new vistas of  thought, while engaging and encouraging African  metaphysicians to explore a previously ignored perspective.  Aribiah David Attoe is currently a Lecturer at the  University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and a member of  the Conversational Society of Philosophy, Calabar,  Nigeria.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443547},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91109-6},
}