The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

by Nimi Wariboko (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030364908
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing.- 3. Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis.- 4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations).- 5. Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya.- 6. The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context.- 7. Personhood in Africa.- 8. African Communal Ethics.- 9. Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism.- 10. Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness.- 11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy for Ghana.- 12. Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa.- 13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare.- 14. State and Society: A Comparative Perspective.- 15. Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah.- 16. Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor.- 17. Political Ethics of Franz Fanon.- 18. Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies.- 19. Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours.- 20. The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa.- 21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State.- 22. Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa.- 23. Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.- 24. Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye .- 25. Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji.- 26. Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity.- 27. Ritual Archives .- 28. The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality.- 29. Religion and Social Justice in Africa.- 30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics.- 31. African Environmental Ethics.- 32. Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu’s Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal.- 33. “Reminders of What Once Was”: Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye .