Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783031328978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book offers fresh academic insights, reflections, questions, issues, and approaches to development ethics, taking into account, African values and ethics. Development ethics is an area of applied ethics that examines the moral issues involved in global, social, and economic transformation. While it is a relatively new discipline, there have been numerous scholarly publications on it from Western perspectives. However, only a few studies that focused on development ethics from the African perspective. To address this gap, the book seeks to answer critical questions such as "What does development mean to Africans?", "How can we measure development?", "Who gets to decide?", and "What constitutes just development in Africa?" With contributions from African scholars from diverse backgrounds, the book covers various development themes such as Theories and approaches to development ethics in Africa, Environmental Ethics and African Development, Ethics, Politics and African Development, Migration and African development, Gender, Ethics and Socio-economic Development in Africa, Education, Ethics and African development. It is an essential resource for researchers, lecturers, and students interested in political philosophy and African culture studies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction- What is Development Ethics in an African Context?.- Chapter 2 African Ethics as a Conduit to Development.- Chapter 3 Neo-liberalism and the Ethics of Pan-African Development Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 4 An Anatomy of Neoliberalism’s Subversion of Development and Democracy in Africa.- Chapter 5 The Moral Dimension of Development in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6 Development Theory and Ideology Conundrums in Africa: A disconnect between values and practice.- Chapter 7 “A model without plenty”: A critical assessment of the “Winner takes all” concept in Zimbabwean politics 1980-2021.- Chapter 8 African Ethics and Sustainable Development Goals: Towards Achieving the SDGs in Africa.- Chapter 9 A blessing or a curse: An exploration of Zimbabwe’s plight in the global village.- Chapter 10 Can the disrupter be disrupted? An ethical interrogation of the implication of Disruptive innovations on incumbent businesses in Africa.- Chapter 11 Human Rights: A Precursor for Development in Africa with specific reference to Women’s Rights.- Chapter 12 The Economic Foundation of Racism.- Chapter 13 Dynamics of poverty and brain-drain in Africa.- Chapter 14 Medical Brain Drain and Restrictive Migration Policies in Africa: Recurring Issues and New Perspectives.- Chapter 15 Environmental and intergeneration justice in Africa: Important issues in addressing Africa’s developmental challenges in the 21st century.- Chapter 16 “Environmental Crisis or Environmental Retaliation”: Reflections on the Nexus between the Manyika people and the Environment in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe.- Chapter 17 Africa’s Economic Migrants and their contribution to Community Development in Africa’s host communities.- Chapter 18 Epistemic Decolonisation in African Higher Education: Beyond Current Curricular and Pedagogical Reformation.- Chapter 19 Educational Challenges to Africa’s Development: The Imperative of Epistemic Decolonisation Victoria.- Chapter 20 Political conflict, Sanctions and Development in the Post-coup Zimbabwe: An Ubuntu perspective.- Chapter 21 Terrorism, Religious Fundamentalism and the Challenge of (Under)development in Africa: An Existentialist InterventionAbidemi Israel.- Chapter 22 Towards Resolving African Leadership Issues Using Integrity and Public Accountability Criteria of Ethical and Exemplary Leadership Models.- Chapter 23 Conclusion: Development Ethics in an African Context: What does the future hold?.

O autorze

Prof Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Professor in the Applied Ethics department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg. Her research interests cover the following areas: HIV and AIDS, Ethical issues Affecting African Women, AIKS, Ethics of Technology, and Environmental Ethics. She has written a number of journal articles and book chapters in these areas.  She recently edited a book on “African Values, Ethics, and Technology: Questions, Issues, and Approaches” which provides critical and ethical reflections on technology from an African perspective. She co-edited a book on “Intersecting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Western Knowledge Systems: Moral convergence and divergence”.

Stephen Nkansah Morgan is currently a lecturer with the Department of Philosophy and Classics of the University of Ghana where he teaches a wide range of philosophy and ethic courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Stephen holds a PhD in Ethics Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and a Master of Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy both from the University of Ghana. He has research interests in Environmental and Animal Ethics, Ethics of Technology, Social and Political Philosophy, and African philosophy broadly construed. He has previously taught at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa.

Ovett Nwosimiri has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he also lectured Applied Ethics. He also lectured Philosophy at St. Joseph’s Theological Institute Cedara. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. His research interest is in African Philosophy, African Epistemology, Philosophy of Race, Epistemology, Existentialism and Applied Ethics. He is currently in Ulster University, London campus.