This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa's ethical life and thought.
This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa's ethical life and thought.
Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019). Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Nimi Wariboko and Toyin Falola
Family and Community (Eros as in belonging, togetherness)
2. Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing
Victor Ojakorotu and Nelson Goldpin Obah-Akpowoghaha
Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis
Olayinka Oyeleye
4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations)
Samson O. Ijaola
Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya
Damaris Parsitau
The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context
David Nderitu
Personhood in Africa
Kotei Neequaye
African Communal Ethics
Polycarp Ikuenobe
Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism
Nimi Wariboko
Polity (violence, power, figures)
Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness
Ronald Olufemi Badru
11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah's Legacy for Ghana.
Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa
Olajumoke Verissimo
13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare
Georgette I. Mulunda Ledgister
State and Society: A Comparative Perspective
Olufemi Vaughan
Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah
Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor
Aliou Cissé Niang
Political Ethics of Franz Fanon
Chika Mba
Economy (energies of exchange, market)
Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours
Bola Dauda
The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa
Sunday Dada
21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State
Saheedat Adetayo
Culture (creativity, and forms of organizing creativity, muses)
Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa
Anthony Okeregbe
Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Sanya Osha
Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye
Kotei Neequaye
Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji
Kotei Neequaye
Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity
Adeshina Afolayan
Ritual Archives
Toyin Falola
Religion (comprehensive worldview)
The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality
Obaji M. Agbiji and Emem Agbiji
Religion and Social Justice in Africa
Patrick Kofi Amissah
30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
African Environmental Ethics
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu's Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal
Sheila A. Otieno
"Reminders of What Once Was": Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye
