Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is - as an individual or as a group of persons - does, or should, determine one's concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to be? The aim of this collection of essays, with emphasis on an African philosophical context, will be to establish more firmly and vigorously whether...

The Question of the Rationality of African Traditional Thought provides an introductory analysis of the primary concerns of the debate on the rationality of African traditional thought viewed through science's conceptual lenses. It shows that there is a fundamental problem with the manner in which the discussion on the rationality issue has ensued in the last six decades or so. Among other things, there is the fundamentally wrong assumption that the Western model is strictly scientific and the African model paranormal. Elvis Imafidon shows, however, that both Western and African societies are...

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.

The challenges currently faced by people with albinism in many African countries are becoming a focus for writers, artists, filmmakers, advocates and activists. This volume focuses on the power of cultural representations of albinism, taking into account their real-world effects and implications for social change.

This Handbook provides succinct and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas within the ever evolving discipline of African philosophy in one volume.  This text fills a gap with its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as procreative ethics, bioethics, meta-epistemology, logic, philosophy of education, philosophy of disability, animal philosophy, philosophy of decolonisation, phenomenology, and feminism. Leading philosophers in the field also contribute chapters on more traditional fields and topics like ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political...