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Decolonisation of African philosophy: Regular – abstraction or scientific thinking?

open access: yesInkanyiso
It 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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Tracing Matolino’s Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy

open access: yesArụmarụka, 2022
Bernard Matolino is one of the outstanding philosophers who left an indelible mark on the development of African philosophy. In his philosophical works, Matolino has mainly focused on the idea of personhood in African philosophy, a critique of (African ...
Simon MAKWINJA
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Philosophy in Black: African Philosophy as a Negritude

open access: yesSartre Studies International, 2011
African philosophy, as a negritude, is a moment in the postcolonial critique of European/Western colonialism and the bodies of knowledge which sustained it. Yet a critical analysis of its’ original articulations reveals the limits of this critique and more broadly of postcolonial studies, while also pointing towards more radical theoretical ...
openaire   +2 more sources

On the relevance of an African Philosophy of Higher Education

open access: yesSouth 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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Hermeneutics in African philosophy

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the hermeneutic in the ongoing discourse on methodology in African philosophy. The diverse understanding of hermeneutics is not only limited to Western philosophy; in the few decades of its history in African ...
Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Precision Nanomedicine for Traumatic Neural Injury: Functional Paradigms and Translational Frameworks

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review presents a pathology‐driven framework unifying nanomedicine across TBI, SCI, and PNI. Epidemiological evidence and comparative single‐cell transcriptomic reanalysis define shared pathological modules, injury‐specific effectors, and therapeutic bottlenecks. Six functional paradigms connect nanomaterial structure and biological fate to injury‐
Mouyuan Sun   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statues Also Die

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016
“African thinking,” “African thought,” and “African philosophy.” These phrases are often used indiscriminately to refer to intellectual activities in and/or about Africa.
Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
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Domestic and External Drivers of Brazilian Pork Price Volatility Under Russian Trade Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Russian trade policies and domestic factors influence the volatility of Brazilian live swine prices from 2004 to 2019. We employ a DCC‐MGARCH framework, along with volatility impulse‐response functions and the connectedness approach, to analyze time‐varying co‐movement and dynamic volatility spillovers across pork ...
Gabriel Rosero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complementarism and Consolationism: Mapping out a 21st-Century African Philosophical Trajectory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
African philosophy has been compelled to constantly define itself in relation to a domineering Western philosophy given the historical circumstances of colonialism and the dual heritage of the professional African philosopher who is at once an African by
Ada Agada; Research Fellow The Conversational School of Philosophy Nigeria
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