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In Conversation with Kadir Beycioğlu : Engaging Critically with his Scholarship on Social Justice [PDF]
This paper pays homage to the late Kadir Beycioğlu's invaluable contributions to social justice and education. Beycioğlu crafted a reflexive narrative that uses philosophical methodologies to explore the concept of social justice within educational ...
Cin, Firdevs Melis +1 more
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The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 137-156, Summer 2024.Abstract Oftentimes, we have been informed that democracy is the best form of government possible. In African politics, this view has mostly been adopted and pursued as true. Surprisingly, democracy has mostly failed as a system in most parts of the continent—with most democratic governments undermining the mandates of the citizens who are supposed to ...
Aribiah David Attoe
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MOTHERS AND OTHERS IN FICTION BY SHARON DODUA OTOO AND OLIVIA WENZEL
German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 68-85, January 2024.ABSTRACT In this article I argue that in recent novels by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Olivia Wenzel the trope of motherhood is engaged to evoke an emancipatory impulse that is paradoxically linked to acknowledging constraint or connectedness. Motherhood is an idea burdened by historical stereotypes, and I argue that Otoo and Wenzel use aesthetic means to ...
Sarah Colvin
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Some Indigenous Solutions to African Environmental Problems: An Appraisal [PDF]
, 2019 The paper, Some Indigenous Solutions to African Environmental Problems: An Appraisal, is written to examine the relevance of African Environmental Philosophies to addressing African environmental problems.
Nwoye, Leonard
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Considering the possibility of African philosophical counselling rooted in African hermeneutics and conversationalism [PDF]
, 2023 Contemporary philosophical counselling literature is undergoing continuous expansion through the introduction of new and established philosophical traditions.
Louw, Jaco
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Three models of contemporary African philosophy: Logical criticisms and recommendations
, 2021 Many systems of thought have been constructed in the contemporary period of African philosophy. We considered three of such systems, namely: Innocent Asouzu‟s Complementary reflection, Ada Agada‟s Consolationism and Jonathan Chimakonam‟s ...
Darty, Darty Emmanuel +1 more
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Logic, Method and the Trappings of a Philosophical Tradition:Beyond Hountondji’s Myth and Reality
ArụmarụkaPaulin Hountondji will go down in the annals of African philosophy as one of its most vigorous and consistent critics, describing it in the final analysis as a ‘myth’. He grants the idea of philosophy in Africa, but not that of African philosophy.
Jonathan O. CHIMAKONAM
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How African is philosophy in Africa?
, 2019 Let me straight from the beginning confess one thing: I am not happy with the phrase “African Philosophy” used to describe a subject-matter, a specific discipline in the university curriculum. Why? Because it seems to particularize a kind of intellectual
Hountondji, Paulin J. +1 more
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, 2017 In the spirit of conversational philosophy endorsed by the Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), I am oblige not to venerate ideas but to interrogate and scrutinize them in search of loopholes to be filled and weak points that needed to be ...
Uduagwu, Chukwueloka S.
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Can Afro-Communitarianism Be Useful in Combating the Challenge of Human Interaction Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic? [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Chimakonam JO, Ogbonnaya LU.
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