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Cultural Pluralism and Epistemic Injustice [PDF]

, 2019
For liberalism, values such as respect, reciprocity, and tolerance should frame cultural encounters in multicultural societies. However, it is easy to disregard that power differences and political domination also influence the cultural sphere
Collste, Göran
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Governing Supply Chains for Societal Impact: What Can We Learn From Indigenous African Philosophies?

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's growing role in global supply chains presents an important opportunity for more socially grounded and context‐sensitive research in supply chain management (SCM). Despite its economic and demographic significance, African contexts remain underrepresented in mainstream SCM scholarship, which limits understanding of the continent's ...
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim, Adegboyega Oyedijo, Samuel Fosso‐Wamba   +2 more
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Locating Care Ethics Beyond the Global North [PDF]

, 2016
In care ethics, caring is seen to be embedded in practice and locally contingent. However, despite a large and thriving literature on care practices as they vary across the globe, the implications of the different meanings and geohistories of care for ...
Raghuram, Parvati
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Nurturing lifelong learning in communities through the National University of Lesotho: prospects and challenges [PDF]

, 2011
This paper analyses one aspect of a pan-African action research project called ITMUA (Implementing the Third Mission of Universities in Africa). This particular paper draws on the data from that project to explore the National University of Lesotho’s ...
Ade-Ajayi J.F., Amedzro A.K., Association of African Universities Working Group on Higher Education, Bringle R.G., Brock-Utne B., Charles D., Coffield F., Croome D., David Croome, De Lors J., Fasokun T., Fordjor P.K., Government of Lesotho, Inman P., Julia Preece, Kaschula R.H., Lekoko R.N., Mankatso Ntene, Mbigi L., McWilliam H.O.A., National University of Lesotho, Nomazulu Ngozwana, Ntuli P.P., Nyamjoh F.B., Okediran A., Omolewa M., Openjuru G., Oyewole O., Percy S.L., Preece J., Preece J., Preece J., Sawyerr A., Schuetze H.G., Setoi S.M., Soska T.M., Torres M., Walters S., World Bank, World Bank, Zeleza P.T.   +40 more
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Final‐year students' perspectives on socially responsive curricula in medical education: A qualitative case study

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction There is urgency for health professionals to be better prepared to tackle health inequities. Transitioning to responsive and contextually relevant curricula is an important strategy to equip students to be both clinically competent and critically conscious of the contexts in which they provide health care.
Anthea Hansen, Susan Van Schalkwyk, Cecilia Jacobs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refugees and immigrants in Africa: Where is an African Ubuntu?

Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2019
Background: International conventions set principles and standards by which immigrants have to be treated in receiving countries. A general perception held is that Africans are hostile towards each other, while those in developed countries are arguably ...
Mokoko P. Sebola
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Relational Ethics and Partiality: A Critique of Thad Metz’s ‘Towards an African Moral Theory’ [PDF]

, 2017
In this article, I question the plausibility of Metz’s African moral theory from an oft-neglected moral topic of partiality. Metz defends an Afro-communitarian moral theory that posits that the rightness of actions is entirely definable by relationships ...
Molefe, Motsamai
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Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba, Samuel Oyewole, Christopher Isike, Tony Onazi Oche   +3 more
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Ubuntu, Umuntu and Ubuntu: A Response to Matolino and Kwindingwi

Arụmarụka
The paper proffers a response to Bernard Matolino’s and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s rejection of UBUNTU. To do so, the paper does three things. First, it clarifies important concepts of Ubuntu ethics.
Motsamai MOLEFE, Elphus MUADE
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Logical and Theoretical Foundations of African Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2016
[English] The paper observed that the various ethics that constitute the system of African environmental ethics are not based on or linked to any known African ontology and formal logic.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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