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:	9783030364922
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	634
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

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

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

Oluwatomisin Oredein