Lifemaking

Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

Nimi Wariboko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9822-5 (ISBN)

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Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a counterpoint to the necropolitics that dominates African political practice. For practitioners and analysts for whom Africans and their polities are caught in the TINA (There Is No Alternative) syndrome, this book offers inspiration for an alternative to the current necropolitics. Because the book's thesis is an unreserved celebration of lifemaking, it identifies collective human flourishing as essential to politics.

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His previous books include The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective, also published by SUNY Press, and Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous.

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

1. Lifemaking: Poetics of Politics in Traditional Africa

2. The Philosophy of King Amakiri: Kalabari as a Political Narrative

3. Amatemeso, Otherness, and Violence

4. Chiefs: Subjects to Freedom

5. Sediments of Life: On Poiesis of Social Immortality

6. The Excellent Self: Existential End Goal of Lifemaking

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4384-9822-5 / 1438498225
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9822-5 / 9781438498225
Zustand	Neuware