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    A response to Innocent Enweh on Interpretative Rehabilitation of Afrocommunalism
    with Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah
    Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (3): 29-40. 2023.
    In a 2020 article published in volume 9, number 1 of [Filosofia Theoretica]_, _Martin F. Asiegbu and Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah questioned the continued relevance of Afro-communalism. They argued that nothing about communalism makes it African. They also demonstrated how the brand of communalism presented as ‘African’, is too reductive, emphasizes conformism and therefore is against the individual and counter-productive for entire societies in Africa. For the above reasons, they summed that commun…Read more
  • Ujamaa: Society as Family
    with Simeon Dimonye
    In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Wellbeing in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, Rowman and Littlefield. 2023.
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    Rekonstrukcija ideje i prakse maskiranja među narodima Igboa u jugoistočnoj Nigeriji
    with Simeon C. Dimonye
    Synthesis Philosophica 38 (1): 133-155. 2023.
    The study examines the phenomenon of masquerading in Igbo culture. It philosophically explores the cosmology and cultural anthropology of Igbo masquerading, drawing some important implications for which the authors believe they bear on the truth of human existence. It investigates the distortions in and around this Igbo cultural practice against the background of its immanent significance and, thus, attempts to reconstruct it. The paper demonstrates that the huge potential for development inhere…Read more
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    The Community and the Individual
    with Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah
    Filosofia Theoretica 9 (1): 31-45. 2020.
    Afro-communalism has been largely conceptualized as a system in which individuals attain meaningfulness from the point of view of the community. We assess the implications of Afro-communalism on the individual’s rights. With particular focus on the transformative values of non-conformist features of individualism, this paper shows how Afro-communalism’s emphasis on the community is counter-productive. Our approach goes beyond the argument that Afro-communalism stifles the autonomy of the individ…Read more
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    The Community and the Individual: Revisiting the Relevance of Afro- Communalism
    with Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah
    Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 9 (1): 31-46. 2020.
    Afro-communalism has been largely conceptualized as a system in which individuals attain meaningfulness from the point of view of the community. We assess the implications of Afro-communalism on the individual’s rights. With particular focus on the transformative values of non-conformist features of individualism, this paper shows how Afro-communalism’s emphasis on the community is counter-productive. Our approach goes beyond the argument that Afro-communalism stifles the autonomy of the individ…Read more
  • Okere, igbo names and african philosophy
    In Theophilus Okere, J. Obi Oguejiofor & Godfrey Igwebuike Onah (eds.), African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture: Essays in Honour of Theophilus Okere, Distributed in North America By Transaction Publishers. 2005.