Topic 9 – Logic, Mathematics and Scientific Knowledge

Readings:

1. Horton, Robin. “African traditional thought and Western science.” Africa 37, no. 01 (1967): 50-
   71.
2. Horton, Robin. “African traditional thought and Western science.” Africa 37, no. 02 (1967): 155-
   187.
3. Wiredu, J. E. “How not to compare African traditional thought with Western thought.”
   Transition (1997): 320-327.
4. Zaslavsky, Claudia. “Mathematics of the Yoruba people and of their neighbors in southern
   Nigeria.” Two-Year College Mathematics Journal (1970): 76-99.
5. Zaslavsky, Claudia. “Mathematics in the study of African culture.” The Arithmetic Teacher
   (1973): 532-535.
6. Zaslavsky, Claudia. “The Afro-American Mathematical Heritage.” Outlook (1976).
7. Verran, Helen. Science and an African logic. University of Chicago Press, 2001
   Further Reading:
8. Hallen, B. & J. Sodipo. (1997) Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in
   African Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
9. Sofowora, A. (1993). Medical Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa. Spectrum Books: Ibadan.