Paulin Hountondji on “extroverted scientific activity”

Angela Okune points us to the work of Paulin Hountondji and his conception of ‘extroverted scientific activity’ (1990), where “scholarly work advances the theoretical needs and questions of the Western academy but does not serve the societies within which science is conducted” (Okune).

See Okune’s  full bibliography of references in her PhD orals essay (and sub-essays) on "Querying Science and Technology Studies in Africa" and "STS in Africa" exhibit.

Hountondji, Paulin. 1990. “Scientific Dependence in Africa Today.” Research in African Literatures 21 (3): 5–15.

Hountondji, Paulin. 2009. “Knowledge of Africa, Knowledge by Africans: Two Perspetives on African Studies.” RCCS Annual Review 1 (September).

Hountondji, Paulin. 1983 [1976] African Philosophy: Myth and Reality,  English (transl. H. Evans & J. Rée)  Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. [second edition of the English version with a preface by Hountondji 1996] 

Wikipedia on Hountondji

Dübgen, Franziska and Skupien, Stefan. 2019. Paulin Hountondji African Philosophy as Critical Universalism. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030019945

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