The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

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.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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

1. Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis
   Olayinka Oyeleye

4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations)

Samson O. Ijaola

1. Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya
   Damaris Parsitau

1. The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context
   David Nderitu

2. Personhood in Africa
   Kotei Neequaye

3. African Communal Ethics
   Polycarp Ikuenobe

1. Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism
   Nimi Wariboko

Polity (violence, power, figures)

1. 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

1. 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

1. State and Society: A Comparative Perspective
   Olufemi Vaughan

2. Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah
   Ebenezer Obiri Addo

1. Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor
   Aliou Cissé Niang

2. Political Ethics of Franz Fanon
   Chika Mba

Economy (energies of exchange, market)

1. Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies
   J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

2. Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours
   Bola Dauda

3. 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)

1. Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa
   Anthony Okeregbe

Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Sanya Osha &l...