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This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues
within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must
grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against
some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as
xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and
migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is
focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist
movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous
Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy's
place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and
African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a
variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries.
Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and
intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and
researchers.
The book examines issues of disabilities in Nigeria focusing on
attitudes and reactions to people with disabilities within the
context of practices perpetuating the treatment of people with
disabilities. It contributes to research in the field by advancing
discussions on society's positive engagement with disabilities
issues and remediation of negative treatment of people with
disabilities. Some of the issues examined in the book include a
brief history of discrimination against people with disabilities,
beliefs regarding causes of disabilities in Africa and Nigeria,
scientific perspectives on causes of disabilities, some cases of
disabilities in Nigeria, reactions to disabilities, social
implications of non-adaptability to the condition of people with
disabilities, remediation for people with disabilities, legal
instrument and rights of people with disabilities and protecting
the rights of persons with disabilities. Primarily, issues in the
book are examined from both a philosophical and social studies
contexts, and both the authors of the book are respectively trained
in these aspects and subject areas (Edwin Etieyibo in philosophy
and Odirin Omiegbe in social studies).
This book, appropriately titled Decolonisation, Africanisation and
the Philosophy Curriculum, signposts and captures issues about
philosophy, the philosophy curriculum, and its decolonisation and
Africanisation. This topic is of critical importance at present for
the discipline of philosophy, not the least because philosophy and
the current philosophical canons are perceived to be improvised by
virtue of their historical marginalisation and exclusion of other
valuable and important philosophical traditions and perspectives.
The continued marginalisation and exclusion of one such
philosophical tradition and perspective, i.e. African philosophy
connects to issues of space contestations and raise questions of
justice. The chapters in this book engage with all of these issues,
and they also attempt to make sense of what it will mean for
philosophy and the philosophy curriculum to be decolonised and
Africanised; how to go about achieving this task; and what the
challenges and problems are that confront efforts to decolonise and
Africanise the philosophy curriculum. Furthermore, the contributors
initiate discussions on the value and importance of non-western
philosophical traditions and perspectives, and by so doing
challenge the dormant and triumphant narrative and hegemony of
Western philosophy, as well as the centrality accorded to it in
philosophical discourse. The chapters in this book were originally
published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.
Ifeanyi Menkiti's articulation of an African conception of
personhood-especially in "Person and Community in African
Traditional Thought" -has become very influential in African
philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes
to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with
various aspects of Menkiti's account of person and community. The
contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as
individualism, communalism, rights, individual liberty, moral
agency, communal ethics, education, state and nation building,
elderhood and ancestorhood. Through these themes, this book, edited
by Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe, shows that Menkiti's
account of personhood in the context of community is both
fundamental and foundational to epistemological, metaphysical,
logical, ethical, legal, social and political issues in African
thought systems.
African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and
postcolonial world is - at least since the 20th century if not even
earlier - inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the
volume is to reveal, interrogate and analyse the intercultural
dimension in African philosophy, and to critically interrogate the
project of an intercultural philosophy from an African perspective.
This volume is the first publication that explicitly discusses
African philosophy as a challenge to the project of intercultural
philosophy.
This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues
within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must
grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against
some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as
xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and
migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is
focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist
movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous
Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy's
place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and
African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a
variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries.
Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and
intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and
researchers.
This book, appropriately titled Decolonisation, Africanisation and
the Philosophy Curriculum, signposts and captures issues about
philosophy, the philosophy curriculum, and its decolonisation and
Africanisation. This topic is of critical importance at present for
the discipline of philosophy, not the least because philosophy and
the current philosophical canons are perceived to be improvised by
virtue of their historical marginalisation and exclusion of other
valuable and important philosophical traditions and perspectives.
The continued marginalisation and exclusion of one such
philosophical tradition and perspective, i.e. African philosophy
connects to issues of space contestations and raise questions of
justice. The chapters in this book engage with all of these issues,
and they also attempt to make sense of what it will mean for
philosophy and the philosophy curriculum to be decolonised and
Africanised; how to go about achieving this task; and what the
challenges and problems are that confront efforts to decolonise and
Africanise the philosophy curriculum. Furthermore, the contributors
initiate discussions on the value and importance of non-western
philosophical traditions and perspectives, and by so doing
challenge the dormant and triumphant narrative and hegemony of
Western philosophy, as well as the centrality accorded to it in
philosophical discourse. The chapters in this book were originally
published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.
Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to
those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity.
This is so because there is a general consensus in the scientific
community that the long-term shift or alteration of temperature and
weather patterns both locally and globally are the result of human
activities not the least those of burning of fossil fuels,
deforestation, agricultural practices, land-use changes, pollution.
Accordingly, questions of environmental justice arise because of
the threat that anthropogenic climate change pose to our planet.
This book examines these issues using as its point of departure
environmental justice, where environmental justice is concerned
with environmental sustainability and the equitable treatment and
involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and
educational levels in the development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental programs, laws, rules, and policies.
The book discusses, among other things, the population and
consumption debate with regard to resource depletion and loss of
biodiversity, problems of global policing of environmental
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by nation-states in the
context of the tragedy of the commons and possible solutions to
some of these problems from African and Native American
philosophies and worldviews.
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