Waiting for Godot

The opening chapter is so good that it could stand alone in a journal arguing for an anthropology of philosophy. -- Professor David Parkin, Oxford University Kai Kresse brings three traditional Swahili scholars to life as sages in his masterly contextualisation of their ideas. This is an important scholarly contribution to the debate about the validity of non-western forms of philosophical engagement. -- Professor Mohamed Bakari, Fatih University, Istanbul, and former African Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies Kai Kresse takes us definitively away from the old debates about ethnophilosophy into the new terrain of African philosophy as intellectual practice, as the production of knowledge as wisdom. This bold and innovative book charts a new course for a modern anthropology and its engagement with the political economy of knowledge production. -- Professor Henrietta L. Moore, London School of Economics and Political Science The subject matter of Kai Kresse's book is not only timely; his work is a milestone in terms of the ground it covers. -- Professor D.A. Masolo, University of Louisville in Kentucky The opening chapter is so good that it could stand alone in a journal arguing for an anthropology of philosophy. Kai Kresse brings three traditional Swahili scholars to life as sages in his masterly contextualisation of their ideas. This is an important scholarly contribution to the debate about the validity of non-western forms of philosophical engagement. Kai Kresse takes us definitively away from the old debates about ethnophilosophy into the new terrain of African philosophy as intellectual practice, as the production of knowledge as wisdom. This bold and innovative book charts a new course for a modern anthropology and its engagement with the political economy of knowledge production. The subject matter of Kai Kresse's book is not only timely; his work is a milestone in terms of the ground it covers.