Can Afro-Communitarianism Be Useful in Combating the Challenge of Human Interaction Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic? [PDF]
International 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 O Chimakonam +2 more
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On modern Afro-communitarianism and Matolino’s commitment
ArụmarụkaAs human behaviour, practices, and needs evolve in Africa, there is doubt regarding the continued application of Afro-communitarianism as an explanatory model.
Tosin ADEATE
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Bernard Matolino’s Outline of the Basis for a New Afro-Communitarian Democracy
Arụmarụka, 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
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Afro-Communitarianism and the Question of Rights
Theoria, 2018 We argue that Menkiti and Gyekye – the forerunners in Afro-communitarianism, to different extents both trivialise the notion of human rights. While Menkiti prioritises community and denies human rights, Gyekye who upholds human rights subsumes these to the community. We contend that both are however mistaken in their trivial conceptions of human rights.
Jonathan O. Chimakonam +1 more
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Afro-Communitarianism and the Role of Traditional African Healers in the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Public 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.
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues +2 more
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Solidarity, Afro-communitarianism, and COVID-19 vaccination [PDF]
Journal of Global Health, 2022 Cornelius Ewuoso, Caesar Atuire
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Rethinking benefit sharing in collaborative human genetic research from an Afrocommunitarian perspective [PDF]
Frontiers 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
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Does the South African government have a duty to fund influenza vaccination of adults 65 years and older? [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIn 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
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A Review of Bernard Matolino’s Afro-Communitarian Democracy
ArụmarụkaBernard Matolino’s [Afro-communitarian Democracy] aims to discuss how communitarianism continues to influence African political theorisation. The book discusses how African political experiences have informed the formulation of two political theories ...
Tosin ADEATE
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The Difference between Moderate and Limited Communitarianism
ArụmarụkaThis article uses philosophical analysis to defend the status of limited communitarianism as a standalone theory in African political philosophy. Early African scholars like Ifeanyi Menkiti argued that the community takes priority over the individual in ...
Lungelo Siphosethu MBATHA
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