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By: Christian B. N. Gade

ISBN: 9781498512251
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores the influence of ubuntu on South Africas post-apartheid transitional justice mechanism, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), andin contrast to ethnophilosophytakes differences, historical developments, and social contexts seriously.


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By: Christian B. N. Gade

ISBN: 9781498512275
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores the influence of ubuntu on South Africas post-apartheid transitional justice mechanism, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), andin contrast to ethnophilosophytakes differences, historical developments, and social contexts seriously.


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By: Reginald M.J. Oduor

ISBN: 9781666913811
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.


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By: Aretha Phiri

ISBN: 9781498571265
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.


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By: Bernard Matolino

ISBN: 9781498588287
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The book describes a new form of communitarian politics on the African continent, that is able to take seriously both individual entitlements and communitarian obligations. This is achieved by proposing a thin version of communitarianism that realizes the organic relationship between individuals and the community.


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By: Grant Farred

ISBN: 9781498581899
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida


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By: Grant Farred

ISBN: 9781498581912
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida


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By: Martin Odei Ajei

ISBN: 9781498511513
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book critically explores the depths of Nkrumahs philosophical thought in order to broaden understanding of it and measures his contributions to contemporary thought in a world in which Africa totters precariously on the peripheries of intellectual influence on human experience.


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By: Martin Odei Ajei

ISBN: 9781498511537
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book critically explores the depths of Nkrumahs philosophical thought in order to broaden understanding of it and measures his contributions to contemporary thought in a world in which Africa totters precariously on the peripheries of intellectual influence on human experience.


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By: Edwin Etieyibo

ISBN: 9781498583657
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines issues relating to Menkitis Person and Community in African Traditional Thought, which articulates an African notion of personhood. Contributors not only show that personhood is normative but also explore the implications this notion of personhood and citizenship holds for the nation-state in Africa.


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By: Michael Kamau Mburu

ISBN: 9781793650023
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book advances Oruka's argument that the right to a human minimum is the most basic and necessary (though not sufficient) means to ensuring human dignity, a precondition to functioning as a moral agent. It also defends and promotes an understanding of justice as ensuring both egalitarian and ecological fairness at the global level.


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By: M. Molefe

ISBN: 9781498599436
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book philosophically explores and works to resolve the tension between equality (impartiality) and favoritism (partiality) in light of intellectual resources in the African tradition of philosophy.


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By: John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji

ISBN: 9781498518376
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores aspects of indigenous Yoruba philosophy of law and relates this philosophy to the Yoruba indigenous traditions of governance. It is written with an appreciation of the relevance of the Yoruba traditions of law and governance to contemporary African experiments with imported Western democracy in the twenty-first century.


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By: Tendayi Sithole

ISBN: 9781666959567
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With a Black and decolonial intertextuality, this book explores ways in which Mabogo P. More viewed philosophy and philosophical anthropology not as an abstraction, but as a concrete and material project.


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By: Aretha Phiri

ISBN: 9781498571241
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.