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On Modern Afro-Communitarianism and Matolino’s Commitment [PDF]

open access: yesArụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking
As human behaviour, practices, and needs evolve in Africa, there is doubt regarding the continued application of Afro-communitarianism as an explanatory model.
Tosin ADEATE
exaly   +5 more sources

Can Afro-Communitarianism Be Useful in Combating the Challenge of Human Interaction Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic? [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around the world. For example, it has caused problems ranging from social, economic, and political disruption to various forms of hardship ...
Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam
exaly   +7 more sources

Rethinking benefit sharing in collaborative human genetic research from an Afrocommunitarian perspective [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2022
This article draws on reflections about humanness, friendliness and partiality, in the writings of Afro-communitarians to develop principles for thinking critically about why benefit sharing, what may count as benefits within the context of human ...
Cornelius Ewuoso   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Bernard Matolino’s Outline of the Basis for a New Afro-Communitarian Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesArụmarụka, 2022
In this paper, I engage with Bernard Matolino’s proposal for a new Afro-communitarian democracy as presented in his works “An Outline of the basis of a new Afro-communitarian political theory”, “Afro-Communitarian Democracy” and “Consensus as Democracy ...
Joyline GWARA
doaj   +2 more sources

Afro-Communitarianism and the Role of Traditional African Healers in the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Ethics, 2021
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide, and in Africa, given the lack of resources, they are likely to be even more acute. The usefulness of Traditional African Healers in helping to mitigate the effects of pandemic has been neglected. We argue from an ethical perspective that
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Thaddeus Metz
exaly   +4 more sources

Does the South African government have a duty to fund influenza vaccination of adults 65 years and older? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
In this paper, we draw on the thinking about solidarity, reciprocity and distributive justice grounded in Afro-communitarian ethics from the Global South to argue for institutions, particularly the South African (SA) government, have a prima facie duty ...
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
doaj   +2 more sources

Caring through the lens of African Feminisms: A systematic review

open access: yesRevista Estudos Feministas, 2022
This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context.
Cristina del Villar-Toribio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ubuntu Philosophy and Mandatory Measles Vaccinations for Children

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This is a primarily normative paper that draws on the thinking about friendliness grounded in an Afro-communitarian (Ubuntu) philosophy to argue for measles vaccine mandates for children below 6 years old under the assumptions that measles vaccines are ...
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
doaj   +1 more source

Locating Rights in the Afro-Communitarian Scheme: Testing the Compatibilist Argument

open access: yesArụmarụka, 2022
In this paper, I explore the relationship between individual rights and duties within the Afro-communitarian discourse in African political philosophy. The notion of individual rights is prominent in modern African political philosophy, which is usually ...
Tosin Adeate
doaj   +1 more source

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