African Philosophy

- Introduction Handout
- excerpt from Barry Hallen, A Short History of African Philosophy‍ ‍(Indiana UP, 2002)
- Overview Handout
- Authenticity Controversy Handout
- Zara Yaqob, The Ḥatäta (1667)
- Dag Herbjørnsrud, “The African Enlightenment,” Aeon (2017)
  Selected chapters from In Search of Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob: On the History, Philosophy, and Authorship of the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät (edited by Lea Cantor, Jonathan Egid, and Fasil Merawi, 2024):
- Jonathan Egid, “In Search of Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob: Introduction”
- Anaïs Wion, “Questioning Standards in Ethiopic Classical Writings through Two Distinctive Features of the Ḥatätas: Autarchic Logic and First-Person Writing”
- Neelam Srivastava, “Debating the Ḥatäta: Carlo Conti Rossini and Italian Racial Theories”
- Peter Adamson, “The Place of Ethiopian Philosophy in the History of Philosophy”