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Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye II
Wiredu and Gyekye both stress that the function of ethics in the Akan society is to bring harmony, stability, prosperity, welfare, unity and...
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The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Social Morality
Poverty and corruption have become critical issues that pose huge challenges to the sociopolitical and economic transformation of African countries...
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Theoretical Conceptualization of Capitalism and Freedom
The chapter develops theoretical issues around capitalism and freedom. It argues that there are three fundamental Western perspectives are...
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Capitalist Multiparty Democracy Reforms
The chapter argues that the neoliberal reforms called for the re-emergence of the multiparty democracy system, claiming it represents its agenda of...
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Moral Freedom Conflict
The chapter discusses various problems that are attributed to the conflict between communitarianism and individualism in the context of morality. The...
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics
This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical...
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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...
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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...
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Ethics of Superpowers and Civil Wars in Africa
Scholars argue that civil wars in Africa thrive with the influence of superpowers on the continent. Yet, Africa, today, is primarily a design of...
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The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa
The Bretton Woods Institutions are powerful institutions that have been involved in economic development in African countries before independence....
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Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji
According to Hountondji, African Philosophy must aim at develo** science and technology using African source materials for the progress of African...
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Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Kwame Appiah and the Ethics of Identity
In this chapter, Afolayan attempts to unravel the identity dynamics within the tropes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism that has become a...
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Ritual Archives
In this chapter, Falola critically deploys the term “archives” in relation to rituals as a means of challenging the conventions of Western archives,...
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Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness
This chapter argues that pluralism in Africa could be positively managed through African political ethics of neighbourliness (APEN), derived from...
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When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare
This chapter attends to the role of communal voices—both living and ancestral—in enabling or restraining violence and agency during war. How do the...
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Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis
Debates within the social sciences and humanities on the concept of family and on family definitions have shifted considerably. Theoretically,...
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Religion and Social Justice in Africa
This chapter examines how religion influences the perception and execution of social justice in Africa. Religion in this context includes traditional...
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Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu’s Moral Modeling as Transformation and Renewal
This chapter explores the relevance and the cultural influence of sagacity as pertains to the function of moral modeling in African social ethics....
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The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context
The diverse global sociocultural world views pre-empt difficulty in the standard conceptualization of a human person. Often, the Western world view...
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Between Community and My Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism
This chapter argues that African social ethic is (was) not purely and thoroughly communitarian everywhere. Today, it is best described as agonistic...