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Human–Computer Interaction-Oriented African Literature and African Philosophy Appreciation [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
African literature has played a major role in changing and shaping perceptions about African people and their way of life for the longest time. Unlike western cultures that are associated with advanced forms of writing, African literature is oral in ...
Jianlan Wen, Jianlan Wen, Yuming Piao
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A meta-synthesis of studies on ubuntu philosophy in nursing: Implications for nursing education [PDF]

open access: yesCurationis
Background: Ubuntu, an ancient African philosophy, embodies the essence of humanness through communal responsibility and interconnectedness. It shapes moral values and culture that can be implemented in nursing to improve patient care.
Vhothusa E. Matahela, Nelisiwe Ngwenya
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The Hermeneutical Task of Postcolonial African Philosophy: Construction and Deconstruction

open access: yesPanAfrican Journal of Governance and Development, 2021
Meta philosophical issues surround the topic of African philosophy. What should be counted as African philosophy, and what makes African philosophy so notable has long been a matter of reflection by African and African descended thinkers?
Yohannes Eshetu Mamuye
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Undertaking Empirically-Engaged African Philosophy: The Development and Validation of the African Time Inventory

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023
Cross-cultural conflict is often rooted in variation between values from different cultures, for example, differences in time orientation. Usually, individuals are monochronic or polychronic regarding time orientation.
Aïda C. Terblanché-Greeff, Petrus Nel
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African philosophy (of education) and post-apartheid South African schools: a critical analysis of the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement

open access: yesPerspectives in Education, 2020
In South Africa, indigenous (African) knowledge is at the heart of a single detailed national Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (2012). Against this background, the study on which this article is based, examined two long-standing genres of ...
Thokozani Mathebula
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African Sartorial Culture and the Question of Identity: Towards an African Philosophy of Dress [PDF]

open access: yesУченые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2021
This paper is a critical interrogation of the apparel culture as a marker of African identity in traditional and contemporary Africa. The article philosophically discusses the sartorial culture of sub-Saharan Africans in the light of its defining ...
FAYEMI Ademola Kazeem
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Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: The Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994–2019

open access: yesModern Africa, 2021
This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide.
Alena Rettová
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The problem of understanding and interpretation of African philosophy

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020
This article is devoted to the problem of interpretation and understanding of African philosophy as a phenomenon of intercultural communication. It is a question of the presence of stereotypes in perception and assessments of African philosophy: from the
Ejike Sam-Festus Chukwujekwu
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How student teachers understand African philosophy

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2012
The question ‘What constitutes African philosophy?’ was first raised with the publication of Placide Tempels’s seminal work Bantu philosophy in 1959.
Matsephe M. Letseka, Elza Venter
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