Prof. Rettová has published three journal articles, including a survey of recent African philosophy ("Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: The Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994-2019", 2021), and four book chapters, including a presentation of PhiGe, "Philosophy and Genre: African Philosophy in Texts", in a volume edited by Albert Kasanda and Marek Hrubec. Her chapter "The Nonhuman in African Philosophy" (forthcoming in Handbook of African Philosophy, edited by Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivhase and Björn Freter) outlines Prof. Rettová's research focus within PhiGe, developed in her forthcoming book: a theory of the nonhuman is articulated on the basis of texts in five African languages, including a precolonial poem and novels from the postcolonial era. Prof. Rettová is also coediting (with Dr. Kasanda) a volume with contributions based of the 2022 Asixoxe conference and is the editor of the monograph Philosophy and Genre, with chapters on the specific genres studied in PhiGe, authored by the team members.
Prof. Fraiture has edited a book, Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium (2022), with chapters by several team members (himself, Dr. Gishoma, Dr. Kasanda). Dr. Kasanda's contribution is called "Writing in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of Globalisation". Dr. Kasanda has further co-edited a book, Africa in a Multilateral World: Afropolitan Dilemmas (2022). Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Benedetta Lanfranchi has published a book chapter on sage philosophy in a volume edited by Kai Kresse and N. Oriare, Rethinking Sage Philosophy (2022), and an article "Rethinking Philosophy from African Philosophy" has recently been published in the Journal of World Philosophies (2023). Her forthcoming book analyses digital political activism in Uganda. Dr. Gishoma has published a chapter, entitled "The legacy of Alexis Kagame, Responses to conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in Rwanda", in Unfinished Histories (ed. by Prof. Fraiture), and has concluded a substantial part of her book manuscript on "La Philosophie poétique d'Alexis Kagame". This book presents the philosophy of the renowned thinker based on his – largely unpublished – poetry in Kinyarwanda. Kagame's use of poetic genres and of the Kinyarwanda language make it possible for him to create connections between the deep semiotic levels of Rwandan social life, history and culture, and the new cultural phenomena arriving in Rwanda with colonialism and Christianity. Instead of a rupture, Kagame thus establishes a continuity of culture and of intellectual endeavours – through language, genre, and a deep level of cultural signification.
Dr. Clarke is working on a monograph on ecology through African speculative fictions, with an experimental part consisting of reports on creative-writing workshops in South Africa, where speculative writing projects real-world scenarios modelling ecological crises. Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Emiliano Minerba is collecting data for his monograph on Sufi poetry in Wolof in Senegal. Using ancient language and complex poetic structures, Sufi poetry is often reproduced without literal understanding by its consumers. These texts are thus at the limits of articulate language and border on an inarticulate, bodily experience of language and poetry; they merge orality, performance, and writing; and they use both Arabic (ajami) and Latin scripts.
