Gender, African Philosophies, and Concepts

by Musa W. Dube (Editor), Telesia K. Musili (Editor), Sylvia Owusu-Ansah (Editor)

Overview

This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts. It investigates specific philosophical and ethical concepts that emerge from African indigenous religions and considers their potential for providing feminist imagination for social justice-oriented earth communities. The contributions examine African indigenous concepts such as Ubuntu, ancestorhood, trickster discourse, Mupo, Akwaaba, Tukumbeng, Eziko, storytelling, and Ngozi . They look to deconstruct oppressive social categories of gender, class, ethnicity, race, colonialism, heteronormativity, and anthropocentricism. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, philosophy, gender studies, and African studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032623894
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/2025
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Dube is also Professor Extraordinaire of the Institute of Gender Studies, UNISA.

Telesia K. Musili is Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi.

Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University College, Pomades, Winneba, Ghana. She is also Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel Int., La, Accra, Ghana.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Chammah J. Kaunda

Introduction: the philosophical and ethical ways of African women

Telesia K. Musili

Part I Gender, the living, the dead, and conceptual theories

1 Ancestorhood, gender, and justice-loving earth community

Tshenolo Jennifer Madigele

2 Ngozi (the justice-seeking spirit) as a form of restorative justice among the Shona people of Zimbabwe: a critical analysis of Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro’s novel Muchadura (You shall confess), 1967

Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga and Patience Yeukai Museruka

3 Vavenda philosophy of mupo: incorporating aspects of aesthetics and Romanticism

Yvonne Winfildah Takawira-Matwaya

Part II Gender, philosophy, and ethics of hospitality

4 Ubuntu and gender: on building justice-loving communal spaces

Excellent Chireshe

5 In the akwaaba space: gender and religion in the welcome space

Rev. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah

Part III Gender, ethics, and philosophies of resistance

6 When the subaltern speaks: reading the Mmutle (Hare) way

Musa W. Dube

7 Anowa: continuing our conversations for liberation

Abena Kyere

8 Takumbeng embodied arts of resistance in Cameroon

Alice Yahfeh-Deigh

Part IV Gender, sage spaces, and ways of knowing and being

9 Eziko: storying space, gender, and knowledge construction

Nobuntu Penxa-Matholeni and Musa W. Dube

10 Women and shrines in African indigenous religion: a case study of the Shona in Zimbabwe

Silindiwe Zvingowanisei

11 Imbusa as a sacred space and the role of banachimbusa as spiritual leaders

Lilian C. Siwila & Sylvia K. Mukuka

Part V Gender, ethics, and African political philosophy

12 The Kgotla space: African political philosophy, gender, and community building in the public space

Abel Tabalaka and Kenosi Molato

13 Gender (in)justice in the political philosophy of Julius Nyerere

Dogara Ishaya Manomi

14 The Afrocentric-Womanist Paradigm

Seyram B. Amenyedzi