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.
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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
Olayinka Oyeleye
4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations)
Samson O. Ijaola
Damaris Parsitau
David Nderitu
Kotei Neequaye
Polycarp Ikuenobe
Nimi Wariboko
Polity (violence, power, figures)
Ronald Olufemi Badru
11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy for Ghana.
Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Olajumoke Verissimo
13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare
Georgette I. Mulunda Ledgister
Olufemi Vaughan
Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Aliou Cissé Niang
Chika Mba
Economy (energies of exchange, market)
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Bola Dauda
Sunday Dada
21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State
Saheedat Adetayo
Culture (creativity, and forms of organizing creativity, muses)
Anthony Okeregbe
Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Sanya Osha
Kotei Neequaye
Kotei Neequaye
Adeshina Afolayan
Toyin Falola
Religion (comprehensive worldview)
Obaji M. Agbiji and Emem Agbiji
Patrick Kofi Amissah
30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Sheila A. Otieno
Oluwatomisin Oredein
Sobre el autor
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.