African Spirituality and Ethics
Decolonising a False Dichotomy
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Munyaradzi Felix Murove
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Essentials of African Spirituality
This chapter discusses what have been identified as the essentials of African spirituality and ethics. Firstly, the idea of the all-encompassing reality of the spirit is central to African spirituality. The ph...
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African Spirituality as the Foundation for a Relational Ethic
This chapter is based on the premise that African ethics is an immensely rich ethical tradition that puts emphasis on the primacy of relationality. For this reason, the spirituality that arises from such an et...
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The Politicization of Spirituality in Southern Africa
Colonial oppressors undertook their oppressive activities on the grounds that they were doing it for “the Christian faith and civilization” and that it was God who was empowering them to do so. All oppressive ...
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A Symbiotic Relationship Between African Spirituality and Ethics
In this chapter it is argued that a genuine discourse of African ethics remains deficient without the inclusion of ancestors in such discourse. No concept in Africa has had plethora of mixed reactions which su...
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African Communitarian Ethics and Spirituality
This chapter espouses the thesis that human beings are eternally related to the natural environment as they are related and interrelated to each other. Even God and the ancestors were infused in the natural en...
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Introduction
Within the African context, early missionaries transmitted their knowledge of God and religious experiences from the perspective of western cultural and religious experiences as the only source of communicatio...
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Healing in African Spirituality and Ethics
In this chapter, it was argued that African spirituality has contributed to healing in Southern Africa. I will argue that Christian spirituality and anthropological scholarship has contributed enormously to th...
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Introduction
This chapter offers a brief discussion of the political problems that are currently faced by Africa from colonialism up to post-colonialism. The post-colonial African political scene has remained entangled in ...
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Regional Integration and the Ethic of Co-operation in Post-colonial Africa
This chapter discusses regional integration and the discourse of the ethic of co-operation in post-colonial Africa as a mechanism aimed at poverty alleviation. The presumption among African politicians was tha...
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African Ethics in a Nutshell
The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with a synthetic view of African ethics with the aim of fostering an in-depth understanding of the ethical issues that arise in ethical issues in post-colonial ...
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African Ethics and the Post-colonial Politics of Tradition
This chapter is devoted to a discussion that demonstrates repeatable evidence that African ethics is infused in post-colonial politics about the role of traditions and the reality of change in the light of the...
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African Traditional Humanism and the Ethic of Collectivism
In this chapter it is argued that traditional African humanistic values were seen by early post-colonial African politicians as congenial with an economic ethic of collectivism. A capitalistic economic system ...
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Traditional African Resources for Ethical Leadership
In this chapter I discuss the issue of ethical leadership in post-colonial Africa. Post-colonial political and economic problems are usually related to ethical leadership. Values of pre-colonial traditional le...
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Ethical Politics in the Context of African Traditional Religion
The scope of this chapter is to critically demonstrate that ethical politics in Africa is found in African traditional religion and culture. Politics and spirituality were inseparable from each other. Kings an...
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Politics of Tradition and African Identity
The intention in this chapter is to show how the politics of tradition has remained integral to the yearning for a post-colonial African identity. A political appeal to tradition is based on the realization th...
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Black Economic Empowerment and the Post-Apartheid South African Quest for the Domestication of Western Capitalism
The idea that capitalism and all its economic assumptions is the only viable economic system available for everybody in the world is an idea that has become generally accepted all over post-colonial Africa reg...
