On May 24 2023, the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivered a video lecture on the history of African thinking (from ca. 2000 BCE to 1800 CE) for the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies (Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudos Avançados, ILEA) at the UFRGS University in Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul).
The Herbjørnsrud lecture – African Libertarian Thinking: Revolutionary and Heterodoxal – introduced a series of 20 lectures on African thinking/philosophies (running at UFRGS from May to September 2023).
The recording of the Power Point video lecture (in English w Portuguese subtitles):
Background for the lecture:
Kemet: «The Radical Philosophy of Egypt» (2020), apaonline.org/2018/12/17/the-radical-philosophy-of-egypt-forget-god-and-family-write/ Ghana/Ethiopia: «The African Enlightenment» (2017), aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant
Ethiopia: The Hatata Inquiries (De Gruyter, 2023): www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110781922 (all info)
Nigeria (Sokoto Caliphate): On Nana Asm’au (b. 1793): aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy
The African series at URGS (w Bruno Oliveira etc), May-Sept 2023:
