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Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy 1st ed. 2022 Edition

This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy.

Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.

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Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, was a senior lecturer (2016-2018) at the University of Calabar, Nigeria and is now at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the convener of the professional African philosophy society, The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP) and the founding editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions . He is winner of the Jens Jacobsen Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philosophy. He is the African philosophy Area Editor in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jonathan propounded the theories of Ezumezu logic and Conversational thinking.

Edwin Etieyibo , Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, writing a dissertation on David Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession, which presents a critical examination of Gauthier’s account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He taught for a number of years at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand. His teaching and research interest broadly covers ethics, social and political philosophy, social contract theories, history of philosophy, philosophy of education and children, and African socio-political economics and philosophy.

Ike Odimegwu, PhD. is a Professor of Philosophy at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He is widely published in learned journals and international presses. He is currently the Dean of Postgraduate School at his university.

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Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy

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In this chapter, we revisit some of these central and unresolved practical problems facing contemporary African philosophy. We have identified racism, poverty, religion, gender, Afrophobia, sexuality, democracy and environment as some of the topical and contentious issues in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Although these issues have been extensively dealt with in the literature in philosophy in general, they have largely been understood from different Western philosophical persuasions. Even though some African philosophers have considered these issues, there is still a lack of robust conversations on the possible directions that humanity, especially from the African perspective ought to take on each of these important issues prompting the need for further interrogation into these. We, therefore, seek to consider how these issues might be conceptualised in sub-Saharan Africa without necessarily reproducing Western philosophical paradigms. For each of these topics, we show how it constitutes a problem to contemporary Africa by drawing the reader’s attention to the reality of each of the problems in contemporary Africa such as colour prejudice, discrimination, poverty, religious extremism and violent conflicts, human rights violations, gender inequality and violence, intolerance, xenophobia and Afrophobia, bad governance, state capture and the ecological crisis. We then analyse how each of the problems has so far been articulated, understood and circumscribed within the African philosophical traditions. In the end, we seek to propose how to ground new philosophical perspectives by which to understand these issues beyond the existing contemporary philosophical perspectives.

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Jonathan O Chimakonam would like to acknowledge the Research Development Programme (RDP 2020) funding he received from the University of Pretoria that enabled him to conduct this research. Munamato Chemhuru would also like to express his appreciation to the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for sponsoring him to do this research.

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