Gender, African Philosophies, and Concepts

ISBN-13: 9781032587264 / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str.

Opis

This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts.

Spis treści

List of Contributors

Preface

Chammah J. Kaunda

Introduction:  The Philosophical and Ethical Ways of African Women

Telesia K. Musili

Part I Gender, The Living, The Dead, and Conceptual Theories

1 Ancestorhood, gender and justice-loving earth community

Tshenolo Jennifer Madigele

2 Ngozi (the justice-seeking spirit) as a form of restorative justice among the Shona people of Zimbabwe: a critical analysis of Emmanuel F. Ribeiro’s novel Muchadura (you shall confess), 1967

Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga and Patience Yeukai Museruka

3 Vavenda Philosophy of Mupo: Incorporating Aspects of   Aesthetics and Romanticism

Yvonne Winfildah Takawira-Matwaya

Part II Gender, Philosophy and Ethics of Hospitality

4 Ubuntu and gender: on building justice-loving communal spaces

Excellent Chireshe

5 In the akwaaba space: gender and religion in the welcome space

Rev. Sylvia owusu-ansah

Part III Gender, Ethics and Philosophies of Resistance

6 When the subaltern speaks: reading the mmutle (hare way)

Musa W. Dube

7 Anowa: Continuing our Conversations for Liberation

Abena Kyere

8 Takumbeng Embodied Arts of Resistance in Cameroon

Alice Yahfeh-Deigh

9 Eziko: Storying space, gender, and knowledge construction

Nobuntu Penxa-Matholeni, Musa W. Dube

10 Women and shrines in African indigenous religion: a case study of the Shona in Zimbabwe

Silindiwe Zvingowanisei

11 Imbusa as a sacred space and the role of banachimbusa as spiritual leaders

Lillian C. Siwila & Sylvia K. Mukuka

12 The Kgotla space: African political philosophy, gender and community building in the public space

Abel Tabalaka and Kenosi Molato

13 Gender (In)justice in the Political Philosophy of Julius Nyerere

Dogara Ishaya Manomi

14 The Afrocentric-Womanist Paradigm^[1]

Seyram B. Amenyedzi

O autorze

Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA.

Telesia K. Musili is lecturer at the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi.

Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is the Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University College, Pomades, Winneba, Ghana. She is also the Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel Int., La, Accra, Ghana.