Required texts
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. Ìrókò Academic Publishers, 2006.
- Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy. Vintage, 2010.
- Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The Invention of Women. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
- Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press, 1997.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Collingwood, R. G. The Idea of History. Rev. ed. Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Twining, William. “Taking Facts Seriously.” Journal of Legal Education 34 (1984): 22–42. Open access — the original 1980 address that became Chapter 2 of Rethinking Evidence (2nd ed., Cambridge, 2006; chapter on Cambridge Core via Howard Library).
- Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Literature in Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2012 (open access).
Supplementary texts
- Sacks, Karen. Sisters and Wives. University of Illinois Press, 1982.
- Browne, Kingsley. Divided Labours. Yale University Press, 1998.
- Wiredu, Kwasi. Philosophy and an African Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
- Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
- Guyer, Jane I. Marginal Gains. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Verran, Helen. Science and an African Logic. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Abímbọ́lá, Wándé. Ifá: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus. Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Brown, Stuart, John Fauvel & Ruth Finnegan (eds.). Conceptions of Inquiry: A Reader. Methuen / Open University, 1981. (Introduction; Part 4) no online copy — read the pieces it collects, in the open: Lakatos, “Science and Pseudoscience” (1973 radio lecture, LSE — text and audio); “Theory and Observation in Science,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Hanson’s theory-ladenness); “Scientific Objectivity,” SEP (Weber and the values debate); and Kuhn’s Structure, chs. 1–2, in Topic 5.