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    Limited Communitarianism and the Merit of Afro-communitarian Rejectionism.Tosin Adeate - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):49-64.
    Limited communitarianism is presented as an alternative to classical communitarianism in African philosophy. Bernard Matolino, the proponent of this view, argues that personhood can be attained with the constitutive features of the self leading the process, as against the historical, classical communitarian view that prioritises the sociality of the self. He posits that it is a personhood conceived through such view as limited communitarianism that can guarantee individual rights and prioritises the claims of the individual in African philosophy. Matolino’s claim (...)
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    Germline Gene Editing Applications and the Afro-communitarian Ubuntu Philosophy.Cornelius Ewuoso - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):1-12.
    Germline gene editing has many applications or uses. This article focuses on specific applications. Specifically, the article draws on a moral norm arising from the thinking about the value of communal relationships in the Afro-communitarian _ubuntu_ philosophy to interrogate key issues that specific applications of germline gene editing – for xeno-transplantation, agriculture and wildlife – raise. The article contends that the application of germline gene editing in these areas is justified to the extent that they foster the capacity to relate (...)
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    Post-development Thesis and African Intercultural Theory of Development.Philip Adah Idachaba & Paul Terngu Haaga - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):15-32.
    The aim of the paper is to address the question: is the end of development possible? Post-development theorists declare the end of development. They insist that the problematisation of poverty by development theory is one of the key defects of development. The irony in this problematisation is that development practice as an offshoot of development theory does not actually alleviate poverty, particularly in colonial spaces. Rather, the agents of development have perpetuated underdevelopment at the fringes of the colonial metropolis. Given (...)
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    Establishing Connections with the Ancestors through Umxhentso Dance.Benjamin Obeghare Izu & Alethea de Villiers - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):65-82.
    Through the ages, ritual dances have been part of human culture. Although artistic, the _umxhentso_ dance is a ritual dance performed by the Xhosa _amagqirha _(traditional healers) to establish connections with supernatural beings. During the dance performance, the amagqirha enter a state of trance and connect with the spiritual realm. During this state of trance, they seek guidance and vision from their ancestors. The _amagqirha_, in all the Xhosa communities, perform these dance rituals at initiation and healing ceremonies. The objectives (...)
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    Conquest and Law as a Eurocentric enterprise: An Azanian philosophical critique of legal epistemic violence in “South Africa”.Masilo Lepuru - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):145-162.
    This essay will critically analyse how conquest that resulted in white settler colonialism laid the foundation for epistemic violence. Epistemic violence, which took the form of the imposition of the law of the European conqueror in the wake of land dispossession in 1652 in South Africa is the fundamental problem this essay will critically engage with. We will rely on the Azanian philosophical tradition as a theoretical framework to critique this legal epistemic violence. Our theoretical framework is in line with (...)
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    When Vulgarism Comes through Popular music: An Investigation of Slackness in Zimdancehall Music.Wonder Maguraushe - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):131-144.
    In Zimbabwe, popular music, particularly the Zimdancehall music genre, has become a cultural site where Shona moral values clash with explicit sexual lyrical content despite a censorship regime in the country. This article examines the nature and cultural consequences of the moral decadence that emerges in popular Zimdancehall song lyrics by several musicians. The article illustrates how vulgar language popularises Zimdancehall songs in unheralded ways that foster identities laced with cultural ambivalences that may portray the artists as both famous and (...)
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    Contextualizing Language as a Tool of Value Degeneration: A Sociolinguistic Study of Language of Corruption in Nigeria.Uche Oboko - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):103-130.
    Corruption has traversed all lengths and breadth of the Nigerian nation. The corrupt practice is mostly ornamented with language. The present study aims to ascertain the linguistic codings used to mask corruption in educational, civil service, political and social settings. Data for the study were collected from notable online newspaper and media sources, which include: _The Vanguard, The Guardian, The Punch, This Day, The Nation, The Premium, Sahara Reporters, Naira land_ and others published between 2015 and 2021. The data from (...)
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    The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Techno-Colonialism, and the Sub-Saharan Africa Response.Edmund Terem Ugar - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):33-48.
    Techno-colonialism, which I argue here to specifically mean the transfer of technology and its values and norms from one locale to another, has become a serious concern with the advancement of socially disruptive technologies1 of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), like artificial intelligence and robots. While the transfer of technology from one locale, especially economically advanced countries, to developing countries comes with economic benefits for both regions, it is important to understand that technologies are not value- neutral; they come with (...)
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    Hegel Against Hegel and His Lumbering of Reason on the African Race.Nelson Udoka Ukwamedua - 2023 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):83-102.
    One of the scholars that made sustained contributions to the development of philosophy of history is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel offers a dialectical conception of history in which the absolute spirit moves towards self-actualization. However, Hegel’s idea of history appears prejudiced and misguided because he not only derided and battered Africans using his imprudent racial schemes, he even excluded Africa from historical considerations in his uncouth racial agenda. This paper uses the critical analytic model to deleted ultimately show that (...)
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