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17Ethics and Morality in Yoruba CultureIn Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Ethics and Morality in Africa Some Ethical Concepts in Yoruba Philosophy Concluding Remarks.
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1Dr. Chr. Neugebauer's Crital Note on Ethophilosophy in the Philosophical Discourse in Africa: some remarksQuest - and African Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 95-103. 1991.
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3Destroyed Past, Truncated Present, Dubious Future- The Challenge of Black Identity in a Globalised WorldSecond Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 2 (1-2): 53-72. 2020.This essay is in four parts. The first will explain, using the issue of epistemicide, how Africana intellectual history, knowledge systems and heritage have suffered deliberate, concerted, and continuous destruction in the hands of Euro-American and Arabian gnosis, adventurism, racism and religious traducing. The second examines the concept of identity to show how the truncated Africana present emerged from an identity that was not a conscious choice and shows how the contemporary Africana predi…Read more
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2Barry Chevannes, Myalism, Revivalism, Rastafari and LeadershipCaribbean Journal of Philosophy 9 (1). 2017.
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5Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education and Africa: the Challenge of Epistemicide and Excentric Educational System and PracticeCaribbean Journal of Philosophy 8 (1). 2016.
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8Caribbean Society – toward a culturally sensitive Philosophy of Education in the 21st CenturyCaribbean Journal of Philosophy 5 (1). 2013.
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3The geographies of reason - remapping the existential model across cultural boundariesCaribbean Journal of Philosophy 1 (1). 2009.
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Media Theory, Practice and Ethics – A Textbook of Film and Television StudiesBWright Integrated Publishers Ltd. 2017.This book presents to students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of media and communications, especially journalism, film and regulatory bodies, up to date material for the professional. It discusses in detail the theoretical and practical foundations and tools required for success, and it brings to light ethical challenges which the world of media, communications and policy formulation face at various points. This is an invaluable resource material for readers and researchers in this …Read more
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11Identity Recreation in Global African Encounters (edited book)Lexington Books. 2019.Identity Re-creation in Global African Encounters explores race, racial politics, and racial transformation in the context of Africa’s encounters with non-African communities through various perspectives including oppression, racialization of ethnic difference, and identity deconstruction. While the contributors recognize that ethnicity has long been a staple analytical category of engagements between African and non-African communities, they present a holistic view of the continent and its dias…Read more
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15This 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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156The Bewaji, Van Binsbergen and Ramose debate on 'Ubuntu'South African Journal of Philosophy 22 (4): 378-414. 2003.What follows is a discussion, in three parts, of the African concept of ubuntu and related issues. In the first part of the discussion J.A.I. Bewaji assesses an essay by W.M.J. van Binsbergen on Ubuntu and the Globalisation of Southern African Thought and Society (2001). In the second part Bewaji reviews M.B. Ramose's African Philosophy through Ubuntu (2002). And in the third part Ramose responds to both Bewaji and Van Binsbergen. Although Ramose disagrees with some of Bewaji's comments and inte…Read more
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36Empiricism Versus Pragmatism: Truth Versus ResultsIndian Philosophical Quarterly 20 (3): 203-242. 1993.This essay examines the concept of "truth" from empiricist and pragmatist perspectives. This not without reference to other theories. The concern is to see how the ascendancy of pragmatism has affected humanity and may continue to affect humanity, the so-called objectivity in the practice of science and philosophy and the relationships between the diverse peoples of the world. An analysis of the pragmatist's preference for usefulness, rather than truth, it is argued, accounts for the deleterious…Read more
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30Black aesthetics: beauty and culture: an introduction to African and African diaspora philosophy of artsAfrica World Press. 2013.Introduction -- Biographical details -- The nature of the philosophic enterprise: initial issues -- Contemporary scholarship on arts -- Artistic expression in Africa -- Philosophy and artistic expression in Africa -- Arts, memory and identity -- Conclusion
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34Book Reviews : Naomi Zack, Race and Mixed Race. Temple University Press, Philidelphia, 1993. Pp. xv, 215. $39.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (3): 369-373. 1997.
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43Review essays : Cornel west, keeping faith: Philosophy and race in America. Routledge, new York, 1993. Pp. XVII, 319. £35 (cloth), £11.99 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (2): 212-218. 1997.
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1Narratives of strugglecarolina academic press. 2012.Narratives of Struggle: The Philosophy and Politics of Development is made up of a series of critical and reflective essays aimed at facilitating the understanding and appreciation of the causative, sustaining and perpetuating factors responsible for the continuing underdevelopment of Africa. In this book, the author attempts to present a narrative of the struggles which African and African Diaspora societies have encountered in the process of emergence from colonialism and plantation society to…Read more
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46Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Ontologized Ethics is a collection of essays in meta-ethics with an emphasis on philosophical discourse in the African context. It focuses primarily on the extent to which metaphysical beliefs may or may not justify moral beliefs, thereby revisiting the issue of the ‘is-ought’ relationship
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Epistemology |
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
African/Africana Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |