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Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 A collection of critical essays on Professor Segun Gbadegesin, one of the most preeminent figures in African philosophy, is by no mean an insignificant feat.
Adeshina Afolayan
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A comparison between medicine from an African (Ubuntu) and Western philosophy
Curationis, 2001 I consider the Ubuntu way of caring for the sick in terms of the Ubuntu world-view by systematizing the scattered views. I argue that this world-view is underpinned by the regulative concept of sharing and that caring in Ubuntuthinking can only be ...
ED Prinsloo
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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from interdisciplinary angles in ...
Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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’n Christelike Afrikafilosofie - ’n drievoudige uitdaging
In die Skriflig, 1998 This essay provides an overview of the present state of philosophy in Africa in the following three main sections: African philosophy, Christian philosophy and an African Christian philosophy.
B. van der Walt
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Making room for more games: metaphilosophical typology and the problem of African philosophy
Acta Academica, 2009 The question concerning the philosophy of philosophy (metaphilosophy) has received little attention in philosophical discourses in the last few decades, a case in point being the debate on African philosophy.
J. C. van der Merwe
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Transferring and Rewriting Freedom in Euphrase Kezilahabi
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015 Euphrase Kezilahabi, a Tanzanian poet, novelist and scholar, is an ontological and African interpreter of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. He transfers and rewrites Western philosophy in an African way, transforming philosophical concepts into ...
Roberto Gaudioso
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Obiora Ike and the Challenge of Development in Africa
Journal of Ethics in Higher Education, 2022 African philosophers such as Olusegun Oladipo, Lansana Kieta, Kwama Nkrumah and Kanu Ikechukwu proposed to revisit the semantic of the word “development”.
Gregory Ebalu Ogbenika
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Decolonisation of African philosophy: Regular – abstraction or scientific thinking?
InkanyisoIt is this article’s projection to think decolonised as an African (as my own Gestimmheid is from Africa), with Okolo’s proposition that African philosophy appeared only from the African-European connection. Okolo, was what can be point to, as utterances
Johan A. van Rooyen
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Ars & Humanitas, 2018 The article focuses on the concept of African philosophy. I enter the discussion with some of the earliest texts that we can classify both as philosophical and of African origin. I proceed with an overview of four approaches to philosophising in Africa,
Tadej Pirc
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On the relevance of an African Philosophy of Higher Education
South African Journal of Higher Education, 2021 Nowadays, higher educational theory seems to be concerned with positional thinking that reconsiders what universities ought to accomplish to justify their existence in the realm of higher education (Waghid and Davids, 2020).
Waghid, Y.
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