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2Africa and the prospects of rotational democracyPhilosophical Forum. forthcoming.Sharing of social, economic, and political opportunities is crucial for the stability of many African states. Democracy has been identified as an inclusive framework that allows individuals to freely contest for these opportunities. However, in Africa, democracy appears not to work as compared to Western democratic societies. Some African political philosophers blame the problem on liberal democratic type practiced in the continent, which is modeled after the hegemonic socio‐political discourse …Read more
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215Infinitude and Logic: Travelling through TimeResearch Trends in Humanities 7 157-163. 2020.This study is basically an investigation into the probabilities of place and how such probabilities affect concepts and propositions as they travel through time. I develop the concept of time as a place and argue that time is an infinite phenomenon, which is neither fixed, static, monolithic nor objective. I show that when concepts cross ontological jurisdictions they loss their truth-values because their formative meanings are radicalized by the time zone through which they travelled. The dynam…Read more
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442Concept, Principles and Research Methods of African Environmental EthicsAfricology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 11 (7): 123-141. 2018.[English] This paper aims to discuss ten traditional and contemporary methodological paradigms in African philosophy, and demonstrates how they may apply to African environmental ethics research. The methods include: Ethno-philosophy, Sage Philosophy, Conversational Philosophy, Conceptual Mandelanization, Eco-Afrocentricism, Indigenous Language Analysis, Eco-Afro-feminism, Conceptual Decolonization, Storytelling Philosophy, and Cultural Adaptationism. The significance and limitations of the meth…Read more
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675Is there a Social Contract between the Firm and Community: Revisiting the Philosophy of Corporate Social ResponsibilityInternational Journal of Development and Sustainability 7 (1): 355-380. 2018.In this study, I demonstrated that there is a corporate social contract between firms and their host communities. The implication is that the idea of the social contract places corporate social responsibility (CSR) on a conditional pivot, whereby the host communities have to fulfil their own side of the contract in order to merit CSR projects. I examined the implication of the social contract for corrupt and unaccountable host communities. I based my analysis on two philosophical frameworks, nam…Read more
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663Patterns, Trends, and Issues of Illicit Wildlife Hunting and Trade: Analysis Based on African Environmental EthicsInternational Journal of Development and Sustainability 6 (11): 1865-1890. 2017.The creation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 has significantly altered the dynamics of trade in fauna and flora. Despite this effort, curbing of criminal trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora has remained a key challenge for some countries. The objective of this study was to identify and establish the trafficking routes of illegal wildlife and forest products, analyzing the patterns and trends of wildlife and fo…Read more
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256African Indigenous Languages and the Advancement of African PhilosophyAfricology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (5): 208-217. 2018.The contention raised in this research is to showcase that indigenous African languages are imperative tools in advancing African philosophy and thought. By extension the genuiness and originality of African philosophical thought is best advanced when it is vocalized and transliterated in the mother tongue of the philosopher. When African philosophical thought is done and articulated in language foreign to the philosopher, then that philosophical thought is weakened within the conceptual express…Read more
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321Renewable Energy Issues in Africa ContextsRelations: Beyond Anthropocentrism 6 (1): 117-133. 2018.The relationship between energy and ethics is gaining attention in policy rooms around the world. How does one respond to the competing interests of the environment and posterity while also addressing the energy needs of the present human generation? In Western philosophy, this question is currently subject of debate and research. However, the African philosophical analysis that is required to address this concern is generally absent from discourse/literature on energy ethics. This article aims …Read more
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484The Concept of Beauty in African PhilosophyAfricology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 10 (7): 249-260. 2017.This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on African aesthetics by presenting concept of beauty or the beautiful as it evolved from the cultural conception of beauty to the philosophical shift in the concept. It also examined Western concept of beauty in order to show the different contexts of the meaning of beauty in Africa and Western philosophies. In the paper, I focused primarily on analyzing beauty concept in terms of what constitutes beauty and how the beautiful can be known. I sh…Read more
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332Homosexuality and the Two-Way Test of Moral Validity of Sexual AffairsIOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 22 (8): 45-53. 2017.In this article, I examined the various ethical problems raise to morally discount homosexuality. I found that so far no moral argument proved adequate ground to discount homoeroticism. However, I have developed the ‘Two-Way Test’ (TWT) by which the social acceptability of any sexual relation should be tested for moral validity. From the analysis, homosexuality was found to have failed the test. That is to say, homosexuality is not a morally valid act. Despite that, the immoral status of homosex…Read more
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278A Colloquy on Violence and Non-Violence: Towards a Complementary Conflict ResolutionAmerican Journal of Social Issues and Humanities 7 (2): 137-150. 2017.In conflict resolution discourse the two challenging and contrasting concepts, violence and non-violence, are often presented as opposites and contradictory. On the basis of this, one is affirmed against the other. In this article, we aimed to present violence and non-violence as complementary phenomena toward a complementary process of conflict resolution. The objective was to provide an analysis to show that the two concepts can contribute meaningfully to conflict management and resolution. To…Read more
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670Scientific Research on Homosexuality and its Philosophical Implications; Plus the Roles of Parenting and “Okonkwo Complex” in Sexual Identity DevelopmentIOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 22 (6): 61-69. 2017.In this study, I aimed to subject to philosophical analysis the scientific data from biological science researches that are conducted into the phenomenon of homosexuality in order to give philosophical interpretation to it thereby establishing the normative values of the scientific findings. From the study, I observed that much of the scientific data on homosexuality established the phenomenon as ingrained in the human biological construct. I argued that although homoeroticism is biological cons…Read more
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339Logical and Theoretical Foundations of African Environmental EthicsAfricology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9 (9): 3-24. 2016.[English] The paper observed that the various ethics that constitute the system of African environmental ethics are not based on or linked to any known African ontology and formal logic. It argued that the contextualisation of African environmental ethics on African ontology and African logic is essential since Western ontology and logic do not serve to adequately explain and provide proper meanings to the various concepts and propositions employed in the African environmental ethics. Therefore,…Read more
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2Two Moral Questions in Stem Cell Research ProgrammeIOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 21 (9): 7-12. 2016.This study aimed to examine two important moral questions that are held against stem cell research by some scholars. These issues include: first, questions of right to life, and second, question of human dignity. This paper considered the arguments of the anti and pro hES cell research as well as the arguments of the gradualists. From the analyses, it was found that moral arguments held against hES cell research are weak, fallacious and, in some cases, shallow.
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13785Julius Nyerere's Philosophy of Education: Implication for Nigeria's Educational System ReformsAfricology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9 (3): 109-125. 2016.Nyerere’s philosophy of education is one of the most influential and widely studied theories of education. Policy-makers have continued to draw from it for policy re-engineering. In this paper, the Nigerian educational system is examined in the light of the philosophy. This approach is predicated on the informed belief that there are social and historical commonalities between Nigeria and the target-society of Nyerere’s philosophy. To this end, it argues that the philosophy holds some important …Read more
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116Postmodernism, Phenomenology and AfriphenomenologySophia: An African Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs 16 (2): 60-72. 2016.In this paper, I aimed to study the relationship between postmodernism and phenomenology. In the study, I established that postmodernism and phenomenology bear similar ontological marking, which base their concepts and methodologies on an individualistic framework. On the basis of such ontological framework, phenomenology, in particular, postulates a method of studying phenomena, which involves individuating and isolating the phenomena from horizon and holding them as separate individual entitie…Read more
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476The African Meta-Medical Science of Ukpuho Ukpong (Soul Transplantation): A Philosophical CritiqueInternational Journal of History and Philosophical Research 4 (1): 49-60. 2016.The human soul has been believed to be immaterial and immortal element which exclusively inheres in the human body. Ukpugho ukpong (soul transplant) is an ancient meta-medical science of the Annang and Ibibio people, which is hinged on the belief that the human soul is transcendent and it exclusively inheres in proxy animal; that the soul is mortal, and can be surgically transplanted in the likeness of somatic tissue transplant. This study aimed at carrying out a philosophical critique of this b…Read more
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643Solving the Problem of Poor Quality of University Graduates in Nigeria: A Proposed Holistic ApproachBritish Journal of Education 3 (7): 52-70. 2015.Various schemes have been devised to tackle the problem of poor quality of University graduates in Nigeria. In spite of this, the problem has persisted. This paper essentially links poor quality graduates in Nigeria to the decentralized examination system which governs University degree examinations. Therefore, for detail study, this paper focuses on the linkage between the problem of poor quality graduates and credibility of the decentralized, individualized and autonomous University examinatio…Read more
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322A Critical Examination of the Question of Personhood in Stem Cell ResearchIOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 21 (8): 6-13. 2016.Stem cell research programme has been celebrated world over as the most promising medical research in the 21st century. However, the method of stem cell research involves the use and unavoidable destruction of human embryo. As a result of this, many theologians, scholars and analysts have condemned the research programme. Their argument is that the embryo use in stem cell research is human person; hence it is immoral. This paper therefore aims at analyzing and examining the issue in order to est…Read more
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5672Being and Non-Being: Implication for Conflict ResolutionIOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 21 (9): 1-6. 2016.Traditional philosophical problem arises from the distinction between being and non-being, something and nothing, what is and what is not. The objective of this paper is about proving that the distinction can be a framework for conflict resolution, by showing the problem to be a result of misunderstanding of the logical relations of the units. Two study questions are developed to guide the research: (i) what is the nature/structure of the logical relation between being and non-being, and (ii) ho…Read more
Diana-Abasi Ibanga
University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
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University of Calabar, Calabar, NigeriaLecturer