bell hooks is the author of Ain’t I a Woman and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, in which she argues that the struggle to end racism and the struggle to end sexism are naturally intertwined. In both works, hooks also stresses the importance of the ties that bind the study of literature to the practical concerns of everyday life.
In the second segment [14:45], Kwasi Wiredu says that African philosophy is best understood in light of several overarching philosophical tensions, including those among the spiritual and the material, the mystical and the empirical, the natural and the supernatural. The focus of Wiredu’s work is his native tribe of the Akans, which comprises two-thirds of Ghana’s population of 14 million people.
At the time of this interview, hooks was professor of literature at Yale University.
Wiredu, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1985-86), was professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
