What Is Ailing Africa? -- Practical Philosophy in Reinventing Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69766-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Africana Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Onyango Ouma, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.