Ulrich Lölke

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Germany
Title	Dr.
Affiliation	Universität Lüburg, Hamburg, Germany
Email	u.loelke@hamburg.de
Mailing Address	Universität Lüneburg Lastropsweg 19 20255 Hamburg Germany
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 49-(0)40-4917314
Research Interests	Areas of interest are philosophy, mainly in post-colonial Africa, epistemology, philosophy of science, local knowledges, political philosophy, art. Research interests are processes of decolonisation in Africa.
Publications	"But what is done in the West does not contain all the truth...": Interview with the African philosopher Kwame Gyekye. in: QUEST vol.XI (1997) no.1-2, 80-99. Parental Care as a Principle of Development. in: Graness, A./ K. Kresse (eds). Sagacious Reasoning. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1997, 21-31. Kritische Traditionen. Afrika. Philosophie als Ort der Dekolonisierung. Frankfurt a.M.: IKO-Verlag, 2001. Zur Lokalität von Wissen. Die Kritk der local knowledge-Debatte in Anthropologie und Internationaler Zusammenarbeit [Focus Afrika, Nr.21], Hamburg: Institut für AfrikaKunde, 2002. Konversionen. Fremderfahrungen in ethnologischer und interkultureller Perspektive, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 [co-editor with Iris Därmann and Steffi Hobu].
Keywords	post-colonial Africa ; political philosophy ; epistemology ; local knowledge ; decolonization