The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

TRAMA

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.

SOMMARIO

Table of Contents   1.      Introduction Nimi Wariboko and Toyin Falola   Family and Community (Eros as in belonging, togetherness) 2.      Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing Victor Ojakorotu and Nelson Goldpin Obah-Akpowoghaha Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis            Olayinka Oyeleye 4.      Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations)                                                      Samson O. Ijaola Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya Damaris Parsitau   The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context David Nderitu Personhood in Africa Kotei Neequaye African Communal Ethics Polycarp Ikuenobe   Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism Nimi Wariboko   Polity (violence, power, figures) Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness Ronald Olufemi Badru   11.  Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy for Ghana.                    Ebenezer Obiri Addo   Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa Olajumoke Verissimo 13.   When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare Georgette I. Mulunda Ledgister State and Society: A Comparative Perspective Olufemi Vaughan Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah Ebenezer Obiri Addo   Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor Aliou Cissé Niang Political Ethics of Franz Fanon Chika Mba   Economy (energies of exchange, market) Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours Bola Dauda The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa Sunday Dada 21.  The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State Saheedat Adetayo   Culture (creativity, and forms of organizing creativity, muses) Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa Anthony Okeregbe   Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Sanya Osha   Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye Kotei Neequaye Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji Kotei Neequaye Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity Adeshina Afolayan Ritual Archives Toyin Falola   Religion (comprehensive worldview) The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality Obaji M. Agbiji and Emem Agbiji Religion and Social Justice in Africa Patrick Kofi Amissah 30.  The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics Abimbola Adunni Adelakun   African Environmental Ethics Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju   Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu’s Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal Sheila A. Otieno   “Reminders of What Once Was”: Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye  Oluwatomisin Oredein  

AUTORE

Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019). Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030364922
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 979 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 634 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 634
• Pagine Romane: xiv