African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race

ISBN-13: 9780367664718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Elvis Imafidon

Opis

This book explores from a philosophical perspective one of the most problematic, paradoxical and disturbing disability issue in African contexts and societies, albinism

Spis treści

Introduction: Albinism, Difference and the Philosophical Turn  Chapter One: Albinism and African Thick Conceptualisation  Chapter Two: The Ontology of Albinism in African Traditions  Chapter Three: The Epistemology of Albinism in African Traditions  Chapter Four: The Ethics of Albinism in African Traditions  Chapter Five: Albinism in Africa: Some Existential Issues  Chapter Six: Overcoming the Violent Othering of Albinism in Africa Today

O autorze

Elvis Imafidon is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria, and Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). He is the editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics (2013) and The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspective since the Dawn of Modernity (2015). He is also the author of The Question of the Rationality of African Traditional Thought: An Introduction (2013).