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Author : Wilfred Lajul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031545245
Author : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 3030019632
This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a philosophical activity when they use expressions such as taboos, proverbs, idioms, riddles, and metaphors. The analysis investigates proverbs using the ordinary language approach and Speech Act theory. Next, the author looks at taboos using counterfactual logic, which studies the meaning of taboo expressions by departing from a consideration of their structure and use. He argues that the study of these figurative expressions using the counterfactual framework offers a particular understanding of African philosophy and belief systems. The study also investigates issues of meaning and rationality departing from a study on riddles, explores conceptual metaphors used in conceptualizing the notion of politics in modern African political thought, and examines language and marginalization of women and people with disabilities. The book differs from other works in African philosophy in the sense that it does not claim that Africans have a philosophy as is commonly done in most studies. Rather, it reflects and unfolds philosophical elements in ordinary language use. The book also builds African Conception of beauty and truth through the study of language.
Author : Willem A. Saayman
Publisher : Unisa Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029309841
This volume focuses on analysing the meaning of proverbs within Africa. The context in which a proverb is uttered, determines meaning, so this increases the difficulty of explaining proverbs exhaustively.
Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Isaac Nortey Darko,Jadie McDonnell,Suleyman M. Demi,Harriet Akanmori
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 1433133946
African Proverbs as Epistemologies of Decolonization calls for a rethinking of education by engaging African proverbs as valuable and salient epistemologies for contemporary times. The book addresses the pedagogic, instructional, and communicative relevance of African proverbs for decolonizing schooling and education in pluralistic contexts by questioning the instructional, pedagogic, and communications lessons of these proverbs and how they can be employed in the education of contemporary youth. It presents a critical discursive analysis of proverbs from selected African contexts, highlighting the underlying knowledge base that informs these cultural expressions. Explore alongside the book the ways in which these Indigenous teachings can be engaged by schools and educators to further the objective of decolonizing education by providing a framework for character education. This character-based framework equips the learner to be knowledgeable about power, equity, ethics and morality, and to develop a conscience for social responsibility, as well as to embrace traditional notions of self-discipline, probity, and hard work. This text goes beyond the mere documentation of proverbs to tease out how embedded knowledge and cultural referents in these knowledge bases and systems are critical for transforming education for young learners today.
Author : B. Nyamnjoh,U. Nwosu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551958
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.
Author : Kwadwo A. Okrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135938024
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.
Author : Adedeji Adedoyin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359355648
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : UOM:39015013745552
Author : Anonim
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9966250220
Author : Sophie B. Oluwole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132907218
Author : Ngwabi Bhebe,Advice Viriri
Publisher : Booklove Pub
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079744825X
Highlighting both the range of philosophical issues that Shona proverbs raise and the shared concerns emanating from them, this book is the outcome of 40 years work by Taperesa Mutematemi Samaita, a teacher at Mnene Boys Central Primary School in Mberengwa District from 1946 to 1949. Shona proverbs teaching formed part of his Shona lessons and he encouraged his pupils to collect as many Shona proverbs as possible. When collected, these were first analytically dealt with orally, then followed by written exercises. From its beginning at Mnene Boys Central Primary School the project continued until 1986. The proverbs contained in this book were gathered from across Zimbabwe covering Midlands, Masvingo, Manicaland and Mashonal and West Provinces. Of the 5240 Shona proverbs Taperesa Mutematemi Samaita collected 2736 are included in this book which adds to the existing inventory of proverbs by including modern proverbs that earlier collections had not included. By also including Ndau proverbs the book broadens the parameters of the Shona language by recognising that the language does not only get enriched through contact with the West but by lexical diversity within its dialects.
Author : Campbell Shittu Momoh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : UCAL:B3666012
Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1566393809
In this sustained and nuanced attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, Kwame Gyekye rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It must, Gyekye argues, arise from African thought itself, relate to the culture out of which it grows, and provide the possibility of a continuation of a philosophy linked to culture. Offering a philosophical clarification and theology, and ethics of the Akan of Ghana, Gyekye argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy as well as cultural values in the modern world. --
Author : Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780997868975
African folklore, narratives, idiomatic expressions, and cultures are weaved into short sentences that are rich with wisdom. The primary goal of this book is to disseminate knowledge and share the rich culture of Africa, one does not have to be African to appreciate the creative language at play in this book. Readers are encouraged to use the wisdom embedded in these proverbs to transform their lives and the lives of their loved ones and friends.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015058723621
Proverbs from various African countries, arranged according to theme.