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from 1953. He was best known for his work on

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. Sumner died on June 24, 2012, in

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, Canada, at the age of 92.

Bibliography

* ''The Philosophy of Man, Vol. I: From the Upanisads to the British Empiricists'', University College Press, 1973. * ''The Philosophy of Man, Vol. II: From Kant to the Situation in 1963'', Central Printing Press, 1974. * ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. I: The Book of the Wise Philosophers'', Commercial Printing Press, 1974. * ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. II: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: Text and Authorship'', Commercial Printing Press, 1976. * ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. III: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: An Analysis'', Commercial Printing Press, 1978. * ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. IV: The Life and Maxims of Skandes'', Commercial Printing Press, 1974. * ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. V: The Fisalgwos'', Commercial Printing Press, 1976. * ''Classical Ethiopian Philosophy'', Commercial Printing Press, 1985. * ''The Source of African Philosophy: The Ethiopian Philosophy of Man'', Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1986. * ''Oromo Wisdom Literature: Proverbs, Collection and Analysis'', 1995. * "Zera Yacob", in Arrington, ed, ''A Companion to the Philosophers'', Blackwell, 1999. * ''Proverbs, Songs, Folktales: An Anthology of Oromo Literature'', Gudina Tumsa Foundation, Addis Ababa, 1996. * ''Living Springs of Wisdom and Philosophy'', Addis Ababa University, 1999. * "The Proverb and Oral Society", ''New Political Science'', 21(1):11–31, 1999. * "The Significance of Zera Yacob's Philosophy", ''Ultimate Reality and Meaning'', 22(3):172–88, 1999. * "The Significance of Ethiopian Philosophy for the Problematics of an African Philosophy", in ''Perspectives in African philosophy'', Addis Ababa University, 2002. * "The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century", in Wiredu and Abraham, eds., ''A Companion to African Philosophy'', 2004.

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