Her-storical Perspectives in African Philosophy
Critical Engagements with the Contributions of Women Philosophers
Her-storical Perspectives in African Philosophy
Critical Engagements with the Contributions of Women Philosophers
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Challenges male-dominated narratives in African philosophy and highlights contributions of women philosophers.
This book recovers silenced histories through critical engagement and unveils a balanced, inclusive, transformative, and comprehensive framework for doing philosophy in an African context. The volume begins in part I by analyzing the concepts of Afro-communitarianism, personhood, transhumanism, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. The contributors consider AE Chimakonam's personhood-based theory of right action, Diana Ofana's analysis of AI and personhood through the lens of Botho's ethics, and free will as the basis of a normal moral account within Afro-communitarian philosophy. Part II interrogates global justice and intercultural philosophy. Contributors examine Christiana Idika's emenyere principle of justice, Southern and Western African approaches to restorative justice, the colonization of African epistemic experiences, and international justice as a mechanism of state-building. The final part takes “her-storical” perspectives further: addressing the annihilation of male supremacist thought, positing a reconstruction of feminism that focuses on Black women's liberatory strategies, and going beyond gender (history and her-story) to our-story. Her-Storical Perspectives in African Philosophy fills the epistemic gap in the current knowledge production on the history of African Philosophy in which the perspective and contributions of women in African philosophy are often undermined.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Olajumoke Akiode (Osun State University, Nigeria)
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Unveiling the Her-story of African Philosophy
Amara Esther Chimakonam (University of Fort Hare, South Africa) and Christiana Ngozi Calice Matris Idika (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Part I. Afro-Communitarianism, Personhood, Transhumanism, and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
1. A Consideration of AE Chimakonam's a Personhood-Based Theory of Right Action' in the Light of Theory of Normativity
Christiana Ngozi Calice Matris Idika (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
2. AIS, Personhood, and Botho in the Afro-communitarian Thought: Engaging Diana E. Ofana's Contributions
Doreen Sesiro (University of Botswana, Botswana)
3. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Africa: A Rejoinder to Dorine van Norren
Amara Esther Chimakonam (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
4. Freedom and Determinism in Africa in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)
Isaiah A. Negedu (University of Johannesburg and Federal University of Lafia, South Africa) and Tersur Melchizedek Akpan (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria)
5. Transhumanism and Free Will within the Context of Afro-Communitarian Philosophy: A Rejoinder to Amara Esther Chimakonam
Kaouther Karoui (Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster, Germany)
Part II. Global Justice and Intercultural Philosophy
6. Interrogating Christiana Idika's Emenyere as Decolonial Theory of Justice
Paul K. Michael (University of Free States, South Africa) and Evaristus Matthias Eyo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
7. Southern and Western African Restorative Justice: Ubuntu, Manden Charter and Global Lessons for Peace and Reconciliation
Dorine van Norren (African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, Netherlands) and Fatoumata Keita (University of Arts and Human Sciences of Bamako, Mali)
8. Agbajo Owo, the Apemantic Axiom, and Epistemic Freedom in Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola's Philosophy of Liberation
Björn Freter (Hagerstown Community College, USA)
9. A Conversation with Oluwagbemi-Jacob's on Her Idea of Interculturality
Diana Ekor Ofana (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
10. Human Wellbeing and Interculturality in Louise Muller's Interpretation of Akan Personhood
Tosin Adeate (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Part III. From Her-Story to Our-Story of African Philosophy
11. Female Sage – Feminist Philosopher: Epistemic Notions and the Question of Feminism in Pan-Africanist Thought
Inga Triebel (University of Bonn, Germany) and Pius Mosima (University of Bamenda, Cameroon)
12. Beyond Oyewùmí, Olúwolé and Akiode: Critical Intercultural Reflections on their African Philosophies of Gender in Yorùbá land
Louise F. Müller (Leiden University, Netherlands) and Bolaji Bateye (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)
13. From Her-story to Our-story: How Ezumezu Logic Makes this Transition Possible in African Philosophy
L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Afterword
Jonathan O. Chimakonam (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Index
Product details
| Published | 04 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216369622 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 4 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
























