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Ubuntu and modernity in Africa: a critical examination of Ubuntu and its challenges in modern philosophical discourses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.The debate between Bernard Matolino and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s ‘The end of ubuntu’ and Thaddeus Metz’s ‘Just the beginning for ubuntu [..]’ has been a major force to be reckoned with ...
Magoso, Kwanele Protas.
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Book Review: Consensus as Democracy in Africa

open access: yes, 2020
Book Title: Consensus as Democracy in Africa Book Author: Bernard Matolino Size: 168 x 240 mm. Pages: 240 pages. ISBN 13: 978-1-920033-31-6. Published: October 2018. Publishers: NISC (Pty) Ltd for African Humanities Program.
Akpan, Andrew
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Being Gay and African: A View from an African Philosopher

open access: yes, 2017
In recent times there has been an upsurge in the rejection of gay orientation. A number of African countries have openly legislated against homosexual acts to undergird the belief that such orientation is alien to being African.
Bernard Matolino, Matolino, Bernard
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Ending party cleavage for a better polity: is Kwasi Wiredu’s non-party polity a viable alternative to a party polity?

open access: yes, 2016
Africa’s current democratic outlook is a relic of the crowning vestige bequeathed by the colonial metropolis as a sign of the African’s attainment of political freedom.
Bernard Matolino, Matolino, Bernard
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EMOTION AS A FEATURE OF ARISTOTELIAN EUDAIMONIA AND AFRICAN COMMUNITARIANISM

open access: yes, 2018
Taking it to be the case that there are reasonable grounds to compare African communitarianism and Aristotle’s eudaimonia, or any aspect of African philosophy with some ancient Greek philosophy,1;2 I suggest that it is worthwhile to revisit an ...
Bernard Matolino, Matolino, Bernard
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Radicals versus Moderates: A Critique of Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism

open access: yes, 2009
The communitarian conception of person is a widely accepted view in Africanthought. Kwame Gyekye thinks there is a distinction between what hecalls radical communitarianism and his own version of moderatecommunitarianism.
Matolino, B, Bernard Matolino
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A Response to Eze’s critique of Wiredu’s consensual democracy

open access: yes, 2009
The question of what political system best suites post colonial/independentAfrican states remain alive and ever more pertinent particularly in the face offailed attempts at democratisation.
Matolino, B, Bernard Matolino
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The (Mal) Function of “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s Normative Account of Person

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2011
The prominent African philosopher Ifeanyi Menkiti is of the view that the African conception of personhood is decidedly communitarian. He argues, however, that although there are various ways of conceiving the communitarian concept of personhood, some of
Bernard Matolino
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Tempels’ Philosophical Racialism

open access: yes, 2011
Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy has largely been met with hostility from African philosophers. Whilst Tempels intended to show that the Bantu were not only capable of thinking, but also that they had a distinct and coherent philosophy of their own, his
Matolino, B, Bernard Matolino
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