What Is Ailing Africa? — Practical Philosophy in Reinventing Africa
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69766-9 (ISBN)
Not only does this book detail the colonial experiences in Africa through what the author refers to as a ‘social construct,’ it also vehemently criticises modern African governments for their current corruption and maintenance of the continent's situation. This book presents a two-pronged analysis of Africa’s predicament by looking at the duality of ethics and identity. It tries to trace the problematic aspects of westernization and modernization within the contexts of neo-colonialism and continued exploitation of Africa by external forces, as well as the complicity of Africans themselves.
Stephen Onyango Ouma is a Kenyan philosopher and author. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief and publications manager at Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), where he also serves as a lecturer. He is also a lecturer at Marist International University College. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and is currently in his final year as a doctoral student. His scholarship focuses on the philosophical interpretation of diverse cultural phenomena in Africa and beyond with his main area of specialization being African Studies.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 The Social Construct
Introduction
1 An Overview of the Invention
2 The Social Construct: How It Started
3 Social Construct Defined
4 The Western Social Construct Discourses
5 The Objectives of Western Social Construct
6 The Roots of Racial Discourses
7 The Impact of Western Social Construct: the Root Cause of Cultural Intoxication in Africa
7.1 The Western Social Construct and the African Worldview: Culture and Modernization
7.2 Traditional Understanding of Ultimate Reality
8 Decolonizing the Western Construct
8.1 Need for Conscious-Minded Leaders
9 Decolonization Attempts and Its Failure in Africa
9.1 The Vision of the African Founding Fathers
10 What Should We Do? the Desire for Antithesis Discourses
2 Decolonizing Colonial Education
Introduction
1 Education: Self-Autonomy
2 History and Time
2.1 Why the Revitalization of the African Past?
3 Autonomy and Freedom
4 Literature in Colonial Africa
5 Africanizing the Colonial Education Systems: the Missing Link
6 The Traditional African Education Systems: a Philosophical Reflection
7 The Role of Traditional African Approaches of Education in the Modern World
7.1 Diversity in Commonality
8 African Indigenous Education: a Lived Education
8.1 Traditional Understandings of Morality
8.2 Morality, Religion and Corruption in Africa
9 African Indigenous Educational System: a Holistic System
9.1 Decolonizing the African mind: the Role of African Philosophy in Education
10 African Traditional Education and Development: Education in an African Context
10.1 Indigenous Knowledge for Development: Opportunities and Challenges
11 Prospect of Integrating AIKS into the Teaching of Sciences in Africa
11.1 African Traditional Education: Gender in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
12 An African Understanding of Education
12.1 Knowledge in Modern Africa
13 Miseducation: Objectives and Results
3 The European Social Constructs and Development in Africa
Introduction
1 The African Paradox
2 Is Africa on the Move?
4 African Economic and Political Liberation Trajectory
Introduction
1 A Cultural View on African Development
1.1 Reimagining Africa’s Economic Growth
1.2 Abolition of Foreign Aid for Development Path in Africa
2 The African Double Consciousness
5 Re-Inventing the Invented Africa
Introduction
1 Inventing a ‘Construct’: Rehabilitating the African Identity
2 Need for a Healthy Inter-Continental Cooperation
3 Changing Trends
4 Africa Rising
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Africana Philosophy ; 2 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 554 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-69766-7 / 9004697667 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-69766-9 / 9789004697669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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