African Philosophy And The Epistemic Marginalization Of Women

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Louise du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351120081

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African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Louise du Toit Pdf

This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosphy exacerbates this marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its ramifications; why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of women’s epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raise feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns for various women’s rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is proposed as the last frontier of feminism.

Author : Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000636192

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Feminist African Philosophy by Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola Pdf

The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent. African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and Eurocentric hegemonies. It sought to actualize the project of decolonization and to contribute African perspectives to global discourses. There has, however, been a dominance of male perspectives in this field of human knowledge. This book argues that African philosophy cannot claim to have liberated people of African descent from marginalization until the androcentric nature of African philosophy is addressed. Key concepts such as Ujamaa, Negritude, Ubuntu, Consciencism, and African Socialism are explored as they relate to African women's lives or as models of inclusion or exclusion from politics. In addition to offering a feminist critique of African philosophy, the book also discusses topics that have been consistently overlooked in African philosophy. These topics include sex, sexuality, rape, motherhood, prostitution, and the low participation of women in politics. By highlighting the work of women feminist scholars such as Oyeronke Oyewumi, Nkiru Nzegwu, Ifi Amadiume, Amina Mama, and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, the book engages with African philosophy from an African feminist viewpoint. This book will be an essential resource for students and researchers of African philosophy and gender studies.

Author : Ann Garry,Marilyn Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134719464

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Women, Knowledge, and Reality by Ann Garry,Marilyn Pearsall Pdf

This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, religion and mind/body. This second edition expands the perspectives of women of color, of postmodernism and French feminism, and focuses on the most recent controversies in feminist theory and philosophy. The chapters are organized by traditional fields of philosophy, and include introductions which contrast the ideas of feminist thinkers with traditional philosophers. The collected essays illustrate both the depth and breadth of feminist critiques and the range of contemporary feminist theoretical perspectives.

Author : P.H. Coetzee,A.P.J. Roux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135884192

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The African Philosophy Reader by P.H. Coetzee,A.P.J. Roux Pdf

Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030724450

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African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya Pdf

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Author : Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137592910

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy by Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.

Author : Leonhard Praeg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004457959

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African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy by Leonhard Praeg Pdf

As academic subject African philosophy is predominantly concerned with epistemology. It aims at re-presenting a lost body of authentic African thought. This apparently austere a-historical concern is framed by a grand narrative of liberation that cannot but politicise the quest for epistemological autonomy. By “politicise” I mean that the desire to re-cover an authentic African epistemology in order to establish African philosophy as autonomous subject, ironically re-iterates Western, enlightenment notions of the autonomous subject. Here, in the pursuit of an autonomous subject the terms of historical oppression are necessarily duplicated in the terms of liberation. In this study I use the term disfigurement to refer to the double-bind - peculiar to post-coloniality - in which the African subject finds itself when it has to establish and affirm a sense of apartheid (in order to confirm the assumption of difference) by inventing its own autonomy in a way that ironically conflicts with an African conception of the autonomous subject. The transcendental concern with epistemological authenticity and autonomy - indicative of an oppressive desire for Western style autonomy - necessary as it may be in a post-colonial context, is placed in an ethical framework that seeks to remain faithful to the African dictum of identity and autonomy “I am because we are”. Whereas the first three chapters are concerned with the transcendental question ‘what is African philosophy?’, the fourth and last chapter situates the ethical framework within which this question arises in the context of the recently “completed” South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956726295

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African Belief and Knowledge Systems by Munyaradzi Mawere Pdf

The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that the debate on the existence of African philosophy is no longer necessary. Instead, it urges scholars to demonstrate the different philosophical genres embedded in African philosophy. As such, the book explores African metaphysical epistemology with the hope to redirect the debate on African philosophy. It articulates and systematizes metaphysical and epistemological issues in general and in particular on Africa. The book aptly shows how these issues intersect with the philosophy of life, traditional beliefs, knowledge systems and practices of ordinary Africans and the challenges they raise for scholarship in and on philosophy with relevance to Africa.

Author : Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668497234

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Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa by Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo Pdf

This book argues that African women's lived experiences are often spoken about authoritatively by people who are not included within this demographic, relegating these women to the role of spectators in their own stories. The dominant narratives of African womanhood, legitimized by intellectual discourse, are neither written by African women nor Africans in general. This book seeks to place feminism in Africa into its historical context by revisiting the experiences, practices, vision, and theories of feminism and gender in Africa. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive introduction to the field and provide a starting point for further and more advanced study of the nexus of feminism, gender, and development in Africa. Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa is designed to initiate post-graduate research and studies in the social sciences for directed and critical inquiry into the nature of feminist and gender politics and power relations in Africa. It is written for researchers, academics, and advanced tertiary studies, although professional gender and feminist organizations, especially those in Africa or focusing on Africa, will also find a wealth of information. The book is recommended for university libraries, post-graduate students and staff, the non-governmental community in Africa, women movement organizations in Africa, independent researchers and academics, and the African community at large.

Author : Jim Unah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : IND:30000078591413

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African Philosophy by Jim Unah Pdf

Author : Anke Graneß,Edwin Etieyibo,Franz Gmainer-Pranzl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783476058324

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African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective by Anke Graneß,Edwin Etieyibo,Franz Gmainer-Pranzl Pdf

African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is – at least since the 20th century if not even earlier – inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the volume is to reveal, interrogate and analyse the intercultural dimension in African philosophy, and to critically interrogate the project of an intercultural philosophy from an African perspective. This volume is the first publication that explicitly discusses African philosophy as a challenge to the project of intercultural philosophy.

Author : Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003856009

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Gender, African Philosophies, and Concepts by Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Pdf

This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts. It investigates specific philosophical and ethical concepts that emerge from African indigenous religions and considers their potential for providing feminist imagination for social justice-oriented earth communities. The contributions examine African indigenous concepts such as Ubuntu, ancestorhood, trickster discourse, Mupo, Akwaaba, Tukumbeng, Eziko, storytelling, and Ngozi . They look to deconstruct oppressive social categories of gender, class, ethnicity, race, colonialism, heteronormativity, and anthropocentricism. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, philosophy, gender studies, and African studies.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030110758

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Ezumezu by Jonathan O. Chimakonam Pdf

The issue of a logic foundation for African thought connects well with the question of method. Do we need new methods for African philosophy and studies? Or, are the methods of Western thought adequate for African intellectual space? These questions are not some of the easiest to answer because they lead straight to the question of whether or not a logic tradition from African intellectual space is possible. Thus in charting the course of future direction in African philosophy and studies, one must be confronted with this question of logic. The author boldly takes up this challenge and becomes the first to do so in a book by introducing new concepts and formulating a new African culture-inspired system of logic called Ezumezu which he believes would ground new methods in African philosophy and studies. He develops this system to rescue African philosophy and, by extension, sundry fields in African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from the spell of Plato and the hegemony of Aristotle. African philosophers can now ground their discourses in Ezumezu logic which will distinguish their philosophy as a tradition in its own right. On the whole, the book engages with some of the lingering controversies in the idea of (an) African logic before unveiling Ezumezu as a philosophy of logic, methodology and formal system. The book also provides fresh arguments and insights on the themes of decolonisation and Africanisation for the intellectual transformation of scholarship in Africa. It will appeal to philosophers and logicians—undergraduates and post graduate researchers—as well as those in various areas of African studies.

Author : Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030606527

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Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa by Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Pdf

This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West—from architecture to gender discourse, from environmental management to democratic governance—and offer distinct and unique arguments that challenge the denigration of the different and differing modes of knowing that the West considered “barbaric” and “primitive.” This volume therefore constitutes a minimal gesture that further contributes to the ongoing discourse on alternative modes of knowing in Africa.

Author : F. N. Ndubuisi,Chiedozie Okoro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121964121

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Reflections on Epistemology and Scientific Orientations in African Philosophy by F. N. Ndubuisi,Chiedozie Okoro Pdf