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1. Should Africans Give Up on the Epistemic Decolonisation Project? A Critical Evaluation of Bernard Matolino’s “Whither Epistemic Decolonisation”

Arụmarụka
In 21st-century Africa, decolonisation has become the heartbeat of African philosophy, and epistemic decolonisation has taken the protagonist role in the theatre of African philosophy.
Brian CHIBVONGODZE
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Dreaming Ubuntu: Jungian Studies, Forgiveness, and Jung's Recalcitrant Fourth. [PDF]

J Anal Psychol
Abstract Jung’s recalcitrant fourth comes in from a place of opposition, demanding that what has been neglected be considered. It is in the spirit of the fourth that the author examines the use of Ubuntu in Jungian literature, cautioning against a decontextualized appropriation of the notion that overlooks its diverse interpretations and usages ...
Cerminara B.
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Practicing ubuntu

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 143-159, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper discusses one particular way we may put the idea of sharing in ubuntu philosophy into practice: moderate selflessness. Moderate selflessness is an important tool that might help us pursue other‐regarding behaviour alongside the agent's genuine well‐being interests to help disrupt the antagonistic gap between humanity and nonhumanity.
Olusegun Steven Samuel
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What is this Thing Called the System of Conversational Thinking (SCT)? A Reply to Critics

Arụmarụka, 2021
This essay is an attempt to address some concerns raised in rejoinders to my theory. I summarise the main concerns in the question, “What is this thing called the System of Conversational Thinking?” Three respectable colleagues, Chad Harris, Bruce Janz ...
Jonathan Chimakonam
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An application of conversational thinking to the problem of racial discrimination in South Africa [PDF]

, 2022
The problem of racial discrimination in South Africa speaks to the question of who is to be included and excluded from South African society. South African society before the advent of democracy structurally and politically was built on exclusionary ...
Ofana, Diana Ekor
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The arc of personhood: Menkiti and Kant on becoming and being a person [PDF]

, 2016
This article seeks to come to a better understanding of the account of normative personhood given by the Nigerian philosopher Ifeyani Menkiti by engaging it with that of Kant.
Flikschuh, Katrin
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An Outline of the Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy

Arụmarụka, 2022
My aim in this paper is to offer an explanation of the orientation I have adopted in my work on African political theory. This explanation is necessitated by some puzzlement that has arisen as a result of the commitment I have sought to pursue.
Bernard MATOLINO
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“It” And Personhood in African Philosophy [PDF]

, 2023
The question of the nature of “it” and the progression1 from “it” to an “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative conception of a person has created divisions amongst philosophers in African philosophy.
Mutshidzi MARAGANEDZHA
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Engaging with Aribaih Attoe’s predeterministic historicity [PDF]

, 2023
African Metaphysics, Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity, by reflecting on some of the philosophical issues that it provokes.
Chimakonam, Amara Esther
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Xenophobia and the end of ontological ubuntu [PDF]

, 2022
A central notion of Ubuntu depicts it as a philosophy unique to African affinity and views Africans as communalistic and Westerners as individualistic.
Sule, Peter
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