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Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy

open access: yesArụmarụka, 2023
In this paper, I argue for an Afro-communitarian account of personhood that considers the value of complementarity as a necessary part of human existence.
Diana Ekor OFANA
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In defence of communitarianism philosophy: The contribution of moderate communitarianism to the formation of an African identity

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
In a struggle to rediscover their identity beyond colonialism, Africans have sought to find a philosophy, which characterises their unique identity, beyond the anthropological horizons and Eurocentric perspectives of humanity, imposed upon them by the ...
Walter P. Maqoma
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What makes African Philosophy African? A conversation with Aribiah David Attoe on ‘the foundational myth of ethnophilosophy’

open access: yes, 2019
One of the most debated issues in African philosophy concerns the question of ethnophilosophy. While most Particularists equate it to African philosophy, the Universalists reject it as philosophy let alone being African philosophy.
Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna
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Complementarism and Consolationism: Mapping out a 21st-Century African Philosophical Trajectory

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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African philosophy in the eyes of the West [PDF]

open access: yesPhronimon, 2016
In this paper I unpack some nuanced aspects of cultural imperialism against the backdrop of Du Bois’s analysis in The souls of black folk, dealing with the confrontation of African Americans or blacks by the other (the West). My aim is to gesture towards how certain ways of doing African philosophy can be considered culturally imperialistic.
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An overview of African philosophy and implications for nursing and midwifery practice: an African hermeneutic analysis

open access: yes
While nursing and midwifery have long drawn from Western and Eastern philosophies, the transformative potential of African philosophy remains only a recent phenomenon, perpetuating a gap in culturally grounded care paradigms.
Bayuo, Jonathan
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Decolonizing Management and Leading Change through African Philosophy

open access: yes, 2021
Africa currently operates and manages her affairs with and from a colonial perspective, in business, politics, and education. Living everyday life through a colonial lens has stunted growth and innovation because instead of using her strengths, which is ...
Amaugo, Amarachi N.   +7 more
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On Delimiting African Philosophy and the Equalization Scheme

open access: yes, 2011
The discourse on the meaningfulness of Africans has taken various dimensions over the decades, especially as it has to do with asserting that Africans had her civilizations, and so were inherently dignified people.
Ibuot, EJ
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Philosophy and African Sapiential Tradition

open access: yes, 2023
The purpose of this study is not to show, as does Obenga, how Europe drew on Egypt or how Africa is the origin of all philosophies and the origin of all humanity, but to show African thinkers who, in the future, will want to take a serious look at ...
Charley Mejame Ejede   +1 more
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POVERTY, AUTONOMY AND DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY IN NIGERIA [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the "Ovidius" University of Constanţa. Political Science Series
This study undertakes a philosophical exploration of the relationship between material deprivation and democratic participation in Nigeria. It interrogates the moral and political implications of conducting elections in contexts where poverty severely
Gbenga Cornelius FASIKU
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