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African American Literature and Anti-Racism Practices
In this chapter, I provide a brief history of how African American literature and its study have come to be defined across time and through various...
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African-American Folkloric Humor: Resilience, Province of Meaning, Responsiveness
This chapter begins by pointing out how the cruel history of slavery included efforts to suppress humor which served as a way for the enslaved to...
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African-American Humor and Trust
One can understand humor in terms of one or some combination of the three types of humor (incongruity, release, superiority) and also by envisioning...
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African Epistemology
The chapter explores African epistemology by taking a historical approach to examining its nature and character. By doing so, it seeks to explain...
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Community Conversations about Culturally Responsive Health Research for African American Communities
Researchers, public health officials, and other community leaders seek strategies to address historic and well-documented mistrust of research that...
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African Research Ethics
Research Ethics is a new area even though the questions that are being addressed are as ancient as humanity since they are about doing right and...
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African Research Ethics
Research Ethics is a new area even though the questions that are being addressed are as ancient as humanity since they are about doing right and...
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African Political Philosophy
The chapter will define African Political philosophy in general and Political Ethics as its branch. It will propound the view that Botho is an...
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African Political Philosophy
The chapter will define African Political philosophy in general and Political Ethics as its branch. It will propound the view that Botho is an...
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Introduction: African Agrarian Philosophy
This book explores indigenous sub-Saharan African agrarian beliefs, values, practices, institutions, as well as contemporary agrarian issues and...
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African Scarification and Slavery: From Anthropology to Allegory
Senegalese author and director Ousmane Sembène, as a socialist and contributor to the pervasive legacy of social realism in African literate,...
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African Epistemology: Past, Present, and Future
The chapter explores African epistemology by taking a historical approach to examining its nature and character. By doing so, it seeks to explain...
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Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology
This chapter will explore two major themes in the African epistemology: the question of epistemic injustice and the question of the epistemology of...
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Accounts of Life’s Meaningfulness from a Contemporary African Perspective
In the available literature on African conceptions of meaning, the focus has mostly been on traditional African conceptions of meaning in life, or...
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Religiosity and African Epistemology
The major purpose of this chapter is to unpack the nature and application of African indigenous knowledge in real contexts of Africa. It seeks to...
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Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology
This chapter will explore two major themes in the African epistemology: the question of epistemic injustice and the question of the epistemology of...
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African Philosophy and the Question of the Future
African philosophy has used the concept of the future in a wide range of ways, but these ways have not been surveyed. This chapter does that by...
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Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked new interest in the notion of vulnerability and in identifying alternative approaches for responding to vulnerable...
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Doing Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy from Below
Recent research into contemporary African social and political philosophy has emphasized African folk and indigenous heritage, as well as the...