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African Witchcraft and Otherness: A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective RelationsState University of New York Press. 2001.
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Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The Ambiguous Adventure Multiple Readings of DeathIn Sue Kossew & Dianne Schwerdt (eds.), Re-Imaging Africa: New Critical Perspectives, . pp. 145-162. 2001.
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35Homosexuality, Ubuntu, and Otherness in the African ChurchJournal of Religion and Violence 4 (1): 15-37. 2016.In this essay I argue that the notion of ubuntu offers a way of rethinking the negative discourses on homosexuality in Africa and in the African church. Ubuntu promotes accepting communication within the ecclesial community in Africa. The essay selectively reviews some of the negative discourses from political and religious leaders, and then discusses the possibilities which ubuntu philosophy offers for addressing the divisions over homosexuality.
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1African Witchcraft and OthernessDissertation, The Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver. 1995.In this study I argue that African theological reflection has not addressed witchcraft adequately. Theologians interested in the ongoing discussion on African witchcraft in general, and Wimbum tfu, need to approach the problematics of tfu from a philosophical perspective in order to understand Wimbum misgivings about certain aspects of tfu. ;The study begins with the background and world view of the Wimbum people of the Cameroon Grassfields. This approach emphasizes Wimbum understandings of tfu …Read more
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43Fabian and Levinas on time and the other: Ethical implicationsPhilosophia Africana 4 (1): 7-26. 2001.
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11Fabian and Levinas on Time and the Other: Ethical ImplicationsAfrican Philosophy 4 (1): 7-26. 2001.The article comments on the view of authors Johannes Fabian and Emmanuel Levinas on the Africanist research and social praxis in Africa. Fabian determined his ideas within anthropology, while Levinas used philosophy and ethics. The author emphasized that their reflections articulate the need for a dialogical approach in Africanist scholarship. He argued that coevalness is not enough to redress the effects of colonial and postcolonial objectification of human existence in the country.
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1Levinas and alterity : Cross-cultural implications for african witchcraft discourseIn Steven Shankman & Massimo Lollini (eds.), Who, exactly, is The Other?: Western and transcultural perspectives: a collection of essays, University of Oregon Books/university of Oregon Humanities Center. 2002.
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