Required Texts:
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The souls of black folk. OUP Oxford, 2007.
- Guyer, Jane I. Marginal gains: monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the spirit: African and Afro-American art & philosophy. Vintage, 2010.
- Mills, Charles Wade. The racial contract. Cornell University Press, 1997.
- Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The invention of women: Making an African sense of Western gender discourses. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
- Sacks, Karen. Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality. University of Illinois Press, 1982.
- Verran, Helen. Science and an African logic. University of Chicago Press, 2001
Supplementary Texts: Numerous articles and books, including:
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. Iroko Academic Publishees, 2005.
- Browne, Kingsley. Divided Labors: An evolutionary view of women at work. Yale University Press, 1998.
- Wiredu, Kwasi. Philosophy and an African culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
- Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.