This course provides the key to a deepened discourse on philosophy in Africa. Available literature and academic practice in African philosophy since the 1960s have largely featured discourses in the areas of origin, general meaning and nature of the discipline, with little attention given to specialized areas. By contrast, this course examines a noticeable shifting focus from such general concerns to more specific subject-matter, in such areas as epistemology, moral philosophy, metaphysics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy in the light of the African experience. The volume includes specific discourses from expert contributors on the nature, history and scope of African ethics and metaphysics, while also discussing particular themes in African epistemology, philosophy of education, existentialism and political philosophy. Researchers seeking for new perspective on African philosophy will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

The course orients the student to the scientific way of writing academic work. Special attention will be given to the applicability of philosophical methods to research. I will look at research methodologies, literature reviews, conceptual frameworks, research problems, and identification, construct a hypothesis, design research, collect research data, use a bibliographical approach in philosophical works, and develop research projects.

Phenomenology is a philosophy of experience. For phenomenology, the ultimate source of all meaning and value is the lived experience of human beings. All philosophical systems, scientific theories, or aesthetic judgments have the status of abstractions from the ebb and flow of the lived world. This course provides a detailed orientation to the students on the following topics such as the nature of intentionality, perception, time-consciousness, self-consciousness, awareness of the body and consciousness of others.

The course takes a historical approach to the field of philosophy. Existentialist philosophy encompasses a range of perspectives, but it shares certain underlying concepts. Among these, a central tenet of existentialism is that personal freedom, individual responsibility, and deliberate choice are essential to pursuing self-discovery and determining life's meaning.