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  1. Part II. A walk around the emerging new world. Russia in an emerging world / excerpt: from "Russia and the solecism of power" by David Holloway ; China in an emerging world.Constraints Excerpt: From "China'S. Demographic Prospects Toopportunities, Excerpt: From "China'S. Rise in Artificial Intelligence: Ingredientsand Economic Implications" by Kai-Fu Lee, Matt Sheehan, Latin America in an Emerging Worldsidebar: Governance Lessons From the Emerging New World: India, Excerpt: From "Latin America: Opportunities, Challenges for the Governance of A. Fragile Continent" by Ernesto Silva, Excerpt: From "Digital Transformation in Central America: Marginalization or Empowerment?" by Richard Aitkenhead, Benjamin Sywulka, the Middle East in an Emerging World Excerpt: From "the Islamic Republic of Iran in an Age of Global Transitions: Challenges for A. Theocratic Iran" by Abbas Milani, Roya Pakzad, Europe in an Emerging World Sidebar: Governance Lessons From the Emerging New World: Japan, Excerpt: From "Europe in the Global Race for Technological Leadership" by Jens Suedekum & Africa in an Emerging World Sidebar: Governance Lessons From the Emerging New Wo Bangladesh - 2020 - In George P. Shultz, A hinge of history: governance in an emerging new world. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.
     
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    Ethics Committees in Western and Central Africa: Concrete Foundations.Pierre Effa, Achille Massougbodji, Francine Ntoumi, François Hirsch, Henri Debois, Marissa Vicari, Assetou Derme, Jacques Ndemanga-Kamoune, Joseph Nguembo, Benido Impouma, Jean-Paul Akué, Armand Ehouman, Alioune Dieye & Wen Kilama - 2007 - Developing World Bioethics 7 (3):136-142.
    The involvement of developing countries in international clinical trials is necessary for the development of appropriate medicines for local populations. However, the absence of appropriate structures for ethical review represents a barrier for certain countries. Currently there is very little information available on existing structures dedicated to ethics in western and central Africa. This article briefly describes historical milestones in the development of networks dedicated to capacity building in ethical review in these regions and outlines the major conclusions (...)
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    Weaning and the nature of early childhood interactions among bofi foragers in central Africa.Hillary N. Fouts, Barry S. Hewlett & Michael E. Lamb - 2001 - Human Nature 12 (1):27-46.
    Western scholarly literature suggests that (1) weaning is initiated by mothers; (2) weaning takes place within a few days once mothers decide to stop nursing; (3) mothers employ specific techniques to terminate nursing; (4) semi-solid foods (gruels and mashed foods) are essential when weaning; (5) weaning is traumatic for children (it leads to temper tantrums, aggression, etc.); (6) developmental stages in relationships with mothers and others can be demarcated by weaning; and (7) weaning is a process that involves mothers and (...)
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    Teaching Business Ethics in Africa: What Ethical Orientation? The Case of East and Central Africa.Christine Wanjiru Gichure - 2006 - Journal of Business Ethics 63 (1):39-52.
    This paper starts off from what seems to be a difficulty of ethics in African Business today. For several years now Transparency International has placed some African countries high on its list of most corrupt countries of the world. The conclusion one draws from this assessment is that either African culture has no regard or concern for ethics, or that there has been a gradual loss of the concept of the ethical and the moral in contemporary African society. Equally problematic (...)
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    Johannes Fabian. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. xvi + 320 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. $50 ; $19.95. [REVIEW]Peder Anker - 2002 - Isis 93 (2):291-292.
    This book undertakes a voyage back to the colonial heritage of anthropology to investigate the connection between imperial colonialism and ethnographic research. It is a history of explorers' being “out of our minds” with alcohol, drugs, opiates, fatigue, fear, delusions, and anger in their search for knowledge. In short, it is a story about scientific “travel as tripping” .Nineteenth‐century explorers of Africa often fashioned themselves as intrepid, heroic, and courageous seekers and promoters of rational knowledge in a wild and (...)
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    MNC Reporting on CSR and Conflict in Central Africa.Ans Kolk & François Lenfant - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 93 (S2):241 - 255.
    In recent years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in developing countries has received more attention. However, in this literature, Africa is much less well represented than other regions, and existing studies about Africa have mainly focused on South Africa and Nigeria. This focus has resulted in scant research on other African countries where MNCs are located as well, and where their presence is notable. Settings largely unexplored include conflict-ridden areas in Central Africa (...)
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    Rethinking mission, missions and money: A focus on the Baptist Church in Central Africa.Eraston Kambale Kighoma - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (4):1-10.
    The African church has the most growing figures compared to the west and yet it contributes the least to world missions. This article analyses the issue of disparity in funding mission practices between the African church and its mother church, the Western church. It then explores reasons behind the African church's struggles to support missions and identifies opportunities for world missions to which the eastern Congolese church is exposed. A critical analysis of different arguments and reports from different authors was (...)
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    An evaluation of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian General Assembly and poverty alleviation from a koinōnian perspective in Malawi.Qeko Jere - 2018 - HTS Theological Studies 74 (2).
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    Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement By Alexander ThurstonSearching for Boko Haram: A History of Violence in Central Africa By Scott MacEachern.Oliver Coates - 2020 - Journal of Islamic Studies 31 (2):280-283.
    Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement By ThurstonAlexander, viii + 333 pp. Price HB £24.00. EAN 978–0691172248.
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  10. The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa.Monica Wilson & Godfrey Wilson - 1946 - Philosophy 21 (80):269-271.
     
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    Priestly classes in east and central Africa.R. E. S. Tanner - 1971 - Heythrop Journal 12 (2):175–191.
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    Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition in the Exploration of Central Africa.Johannes Fabian - 1999 - Critical Inquiry 26 (1):49-69.
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    The Comparative History of Sleeping Sickness in East and Central Africa, 1900–1914.Michael Worboys - 1994 - History of Science 32 (1):89-102.
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    Married clergy in east and central Africa: The clash of roles.R. E. S. Tanner - 1970 - Heythrop Journal 11 (3):278–293.
  15. The effects of maternal residence locality on parental and alloparental caregiving among the Aka foragers of Central Africa.C. L. Meehan - 2005 - Human Nature 16:62-84.
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    Improving technology delivery mechanisms: Lessons from bean seed systems research in eastern and central Africa[REVIEW]Soniia David & Louise Sperling - 1999 - Agriculture and Human Values 16 (4):381-388.
    This article addresses concerns of technology dissemination for small farmers, specifically focusing on the diffusion of new varieties of a self-pollinating crop. Based on bean seed systems research in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it shows four commonly-held basic assumptions to be false, namely that: first, small-scale farmers do not buy bean seed; they mainly rely on their own stocks or obtain seed from other farmers; second, that small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy seed of newly (...)
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  17. Belgian development cooperation and the promotion of good governance : testing the power of incentives in Central Africa.Sidney Leclercq & Geoffrey Matagne - 2018 - In Elena Aoun & Pierre Vercauteren, The state between interdependence and power in the contemporary world: a reassessment. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
     
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    Central path of solar eclipses visible in south Africa as total or annular eclipses, during the twentieth century.A. W. Roberts - 1890 - Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 8 (2):93-109.
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    Lyn Schumaker. Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. xii + 377 pp., frontis., illus., bibls., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2001. $59.95 ; $19.95. [REVIEW]J. A. Barnes - 2002 - Isis 93 (2):336-337.
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    The Analysis of Social Change: based on observations in Central Africa. By Godfrey and Monica Wilson. (Cambridge University Press. 1945. Pp. 177. Price 7s. 6d.). [REVIEW]T. H. Marshall - 1946 - Philosophy 21 (80):269-.
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    Prospects for control of tick-borne diseases in cattle by immunization in eastern, central, and southern Africa.F. L. Musisi & J. A. Lawrence - 1995 - Agriculture and Human Values 12 (2):95-106.
    Tick and tick-borne diseases, especially East Coast fever, caused byTheileria parva, are amongst the most important factors limiting cattle production in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. In the past, they have been controlled mainly by the use of acaricides to kill ticks. Immunization has been shown to be an effective alternative method of control of tick-borne diseases in limited field trials. A development program has been initiated to produce vaccines and implement immunization on a wide scale in the (...)
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    Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa:Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Centred and Southern Africa.Edith Turner - 1993 - Anthropology of Consciousness 4 (4):17-17.
  23. Insight and Artistry: A Cross-Cultural Study of Art and Divination in Central and West Africa.John Pemberton (ed.) - 2000 - Smithsonian Institution Press.
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    Religious ethics in Africa.Peter Kasenene - 1998 - Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers.
    Africa is a religiously plural society with interaction between people of different religions and diverse value systems. The author, Professor of Comparative Religion in Uganda, describes and compares the position of traditional African religion, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i Faith on selected moral issues relevant to Africa today. His central argument is that in order to maintain their identity, African people must rediscover their ethical and moral heritage. He also argues that the new African ethical and moral systems (...)
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    The Centrality of Partnership between Local Congregations and Christian Development Organisations in Facilitating Holistic praxis.Mawonga P. Celesi & Nadine F. Bowers - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (4).
    The study conducted in 2017, in the Cape Metropole to explore the nature of partnership between local congregations and Christian Development Organisations, entitled, ‘Enhanced partnership between local congregations and Faith-based Organisations: towards a holistic congregational praxis’ reveal that, there are enough collaboration efforts between these two entities of the church. These efforts revolve around issues, such as spiritual support, volunteerism and discipleship. The view is that, even though elements of partnership such as volunteerism, prayer and discipleship are essential in the (...)
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    Africa and the prospects of deliberative democracy.Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani - 2013 - South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (3):207-219.
    Preoccupation with multiparty aggregative democracy in Africa has produced superficial forms of political/electoral choice-making by subjects that deepen pre-existing ethnic and primordial cleavages. This is because the principles of the multiparty system presuppose that decision-making through voting should be the result of a mere aggregation of pre-existing, fixed preferences. To this kind of decision-making, I propose deliberative democracy as a supplementary approach. My reason is that deliberation, beyond mere voting, should be central to decisionmaking and that, for a (...)
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    Indigenous Psychology in Africa: A Survey of Concepts, Theory, Research, and Praxis.Seth Oppong - 2024 - Cambridge University Press.
    Understanding human behaviour, thoughts, and emotional expressions can be challenging in the global context. Due to cultural differences, the study of psychology cannot be de-contextualised. This calls for unearthing of the explanatory systems that exist in Africa to understand and account for behaviour, emotions, and cognition of Africans. This call is addressed through the emergence of African Psychology (AP) or Indigenous Psychology in Africa (IPA) as a legitimate science of human experience. This Element discusses the motivations for AP, (...)
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  28. Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for HIV infection in women in East, Central and Southern Africa: a systematic review.Janet Maia Wojcicki - 2005 - Journal of Biosocial Science 37 (1):1-36.
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    Theological education in tropical Africa: An essay in honour of Christina Landman and a Kenyan perspective.Julius M. Gathogo - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (1).
    Christina Landman is a professor of Theology at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. As an East African serving under her as a research fellow at the Research Institute of Theology and Religion since 2014, and as somebody whose articles have been published in the two journals where she has been the editor, I can only honour her by contributing to her festschrift and in basing my reflections on my understanding of theological education in (...)
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    Facing food insecurity in Africa: Why, after 30 years of work in organic agriculture, I am promoting the use of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides in small-scale staple crop production.Don Lotter - 2015 - Agriculture and Human Values 32 (1):111-118.
    Food insecurity and the loss of soil nutrients and productive capacity in Africa are serious problems in light of the rapidly growing African population. In semi-arid central Tanzania currently practiced traditional crop production systems are no longer adaptive. Organic crop production methods alone, while having the capacity to enable food security, are not feasible for these small-scale farmers because of the extra land, skill, resources, and 5–7 years needed to benefit from them—particularly for maize. Maize, grown by 94 (...)
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    Understanding and processing informed consent during data-intensive health research in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and opportunities from a multilingual perspective.Lillian Omutoko, George Rugare Chingarande, Marietjie Botes, Farayi Moyana, Shenuka Singh, Walter Jaoko, Esperança Sevene, Tiwonge K. Mtande, Ama Kyerewaa Edwin, Limbanazo Matandika, Theresa Burgess & Keymanthri Moodley - forthcoming - Research Ethics.
    Africa has a colonial past that renders it a linguistic melting pot, where language is not only important for communication but is inextricably related to cultural identity. In Africa, there are over 2000 languages that are still being used and spoken. Language diversity coupled with cultural diversity may affect the process of obtaining informed consent in data-intensive research. We explore some of the challenges and opportunities of multilingualism in handling informed consent in the context of data-intensive research. In (...)
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    Church partnerships: A holistic approach to addressing social issues in South Africa.Patrick Nanthambwe - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 80 (1):9.
    For South African communities to achieve substantive progress, the establishment of strategic partnerships is essential for effectively addressing their complex social challenges. Churches, given their profound community presence and moral authority, are urged to join forces with other societal sectors, particularly government and business, to promote comprehensive community development. This article examines the potential for church partnerships with these sectors, investigating how such alliances can foster sustainable and holistic transformation. Central questions driving this inquiry include: What distinct contributions do (...)
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    Spreading of Islam without any violence in Central, East and West Africa as a case study.Maniraj Sukdaven & Ensieh Bagheri - 2018 - HTS Theological Studies 74 (3).
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    (1 other version)An African ethic of hospitality for the global church: a response to the culture of exploitation and violence in Africa.Simon Mary Asese Aihiokhai - 2017 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 6 (2):20-41.
    Barely seventeen years into the twenty-first century, our world continues to be plagued by endless wars and violence. Africa is not immune from these crises. As many countries in Africa celebrate more than fifty years of independence from colonial rule, Africa is still the poorest continent in the world. Religious wars, genocides, ethnic and tribal cleansings have come to define the continent’s contemporary history. Corruption, nepotism, dictatorship, disregard for human life, tribalism, and many social vices are normalized (...)
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    Out of Africa with regional interbreeding? Modern human origins.Yoko Satta & Naoyuki Takahata - 2002 - Bioessays 24 (10):871-875.
    A central issue in paleoanthropology is whether modern humans emerged in a single geographic area and subsequently replaced the preexisting people in other areas. Although the study of human mitochondrial DNAs supported this single‐origin and complete‐replacement model, a recent paper1 argues that humans expanded out of Africa more than once and regionally interbred. However, both the genetic antiquity and the impact of the African contribution to modern Homo sapiens are so great as to view Africa as a (...)
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    In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture.Anthony Appiah - 1992 - Oxford University Press.
    The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. (...)
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    Evaluation of agricultural research in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.P. Anandajayasekeram & D. R. Martella - 1999 - Knowledge, Technology & Policy 11 (4):13-41.
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    Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze.Clive Gabay - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.
    There has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest iteration of which emerged around the time of the 2007–8 global financial crisis. Here, Clive Gabay takes a historical approach to questions concerning change and international order as these apply to Africa in Western imaginaries. Challenging traditional postcolonial accounts that see the West imagine itself as superior to Africa, he argues that the centrality of racial anxieties concerning (...)
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  39. Disciplinary capture and epistemological obstacles to interdisciplinary research: Lessons from central African conservation disputes.Evelyn Brister - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 56:82-91.
    Complex environmental problems require well-researched policies that integrate knowledge from both the natural and social sciences. Epistemic differences can impede interdisciplinary collaboration, as shown by debates between conservation biologists and anthropologists who are working to preserve biological diversity and support economic development in central Africa. Disciplinary differences with regard to 1) facts, 2) rigor, 3) causal explanation, and 4) research goals reinforce each other, such that early decisions about how to define concepts or which methods to adopt may (...)
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  40. Africa Humiliated? Misrecognition in Development Aid.Franziska Dübgen - 2012 - Res Publica 18 (1):65-77.
    Critiques of development aid from its recipient’s sometimes draw our attention to the perception of paternalism on the part of ‘development industry’ actors. Even within participatory project designs, critical voices recount experiences of clear power divides and informal hierarchies determining the content and form of ‘cooperation’. While neoliberal as well as neo-Marxist scholars base their critiques on a distributive scheme of global justice, post-development theory emphasizes respect and recognition as the central aspect of justice Indeed, post-development theorists continue to (...)
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    Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa.Austin W. Reynolds, Mark N. Grote, Justin W. Myrick, Dana R. Al-Hindi, Rebecca L. Siford, Mira Mastoras, Marlo Möller & Brenna M. Henn - 2023 - Human Nature 34 (2):295-323.
    Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global demographic shifts such as the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic and more recently the urbanization and globalization of the twentieth century have been major catalysts for cultural change. Here, we test whether cultural traits such as patri/matrilocality and postmarital migration persist in the face of social upheaval and gene flow during the past 150 years in postcolonial South (...)
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    Synergies, tensions and challenges in HIV prevention, treatment and cure research: exploratory conversations with HIV experts in South Africa.Keymanthri Moodley, Theresa Rossouw, Ciara Staunton & Christopher J. Colvin - 2016 - BMC Medical Ethics 17 (1):26.
    BackgroundThe ethical concerns associated with HIV prevention and treatment research have been widely explored in South Africa over the past 3 decades. However, HIV cure research is relatively new to the region and significant ethical and social challenges are anticipated. There has been no published empirical enquiry in Africa into key informant perspectives on HIV cure research. Consequently, this study was conducted to gain preliminary data from South African HIV clinicians, researchers and activists.MethodsIn-depth interviews were conducted on a (...)
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    Theory in Africa, Africa in theory: locating meaning in archaeology.Stephanie Wynne-Jones & Jeffrey B. Fleisher (eds.) - 2015 - New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory explores the place of Africa in archaeological theory, and the place of theory in African archaeology. The centrality of African models in reconstructions is explored, focusing on materiality and agency in the past. The differences between how African models are used in western theoretical discourse and the use of that theory within Africa are also highlighted, as a means to explore the nature of theory itself. Thus, this dual purposed volume (...)
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    Africa Is Not for Softies: On Oyowe, Menkiti, and Conventionalism.Simon Beck - 2024 - Philosophia Africana 23 (1):43-56.
    In Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oyowe argues that Menkiti’s persons are “soft persons.” They are different in kind from human beings in that they find their existence in a social ontology, whereas humans find theirs in a natural ontology, but this does not make them any less real. This understanding, Oyowe contends, is consistent with Menkiti’s texts and allows for a satisfying explanation of a possibly problematic relationship between human being and person. He acknowledges that their placement in social ontology makes (...)
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    Rethinking Political Philosophy in Modern Africa.Olúfêmi Táíwò - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 28:145-151.
    What would happen if, instead of taking an instrumentalist view of the ideas of modern African political thinkers, we consider those ideas as indeed they are, attempts by them to proffer answers to the central questions of political philosophy as those are apprehended in the African context? If we did, we would end upwith a robust, sophisticated discourse properly denominated ‘Modern African Political Philosophy’ in which we recognize, possibly celebrate and, ultimately, assess the quality of answers that African thinkers (...)
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    ‘La clef de commerce’—The changing role of Africa in France's Atlantic empire ca. 1760–1797.Pernille Røge - 2008 - History of European Ideas 34 (4):431-443.
    Scholarship on the French Atlantic empire traditionally and uniquely focuses upon Africa as a source of slave labour for the American colonies. However, this article explores how, in the second half of the eighteenth century, Africa emerged as a viable alternative for colonial expansion. Uncertainties about a colonial future in the New World directed French expansionist attention away from the Americas and towards the African continent, expanding its role beyond a source of labour. The intellectual underpinnings for a (...)
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    Are the powers of traditional leaders in South Africa compatible with women’s equal rights?: Three conceptual arguments.Kristina A. Bentley - 2005 - Human Rights Review 6 (4):48-68.
    This paper is about conflicts of rights, and the particularly difficult challenges that such conflicts present when they entail women’s equality and claims of cultural recognition. South Africa since 1994 has presented a series of challenging—but by no means unique—circumstances many of which entail conflicting claims of rights. The central aim of this paper is, to make sense of the idea that the institution of traditional leadership can be sustained—and indeed given new, more concrete powers—in a democracy; and (...)
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    A Postapartheid Genome: Genetic Ancestry Testing and Belonging in South Africa.Laura A. Foster - 2016 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (6):1015-1036.
    This article examines a genetic ancestry testing program called the Living History Project that was jointly organized by a nonprofit educational institute and a for-profit genealogy company in South Africa. It charts the precise mechanisms by which the LHP sought to shape a postapartheid genome through antiracist commitments aimed at contesting histories of colonial and apartheid rule in varied ways. In particular, it focuses on several tensions that emerged within three modes of material-discursive practice within the production of the (...)
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  49. Values in China as Compared to Africa: Two Conceptions of Harmony.Thaddeus Metz - 2017 - Philosophy East and West 67 (2):441-465.
    Given a 21st century context of sophisticated market economies and other Western influences such as Christianity, what similarities and differences are there between characteristic indigenous values of sub-Saharan Africa and China, and how do they continue to influence everyday life in these societies? Establishing that central to both non-Western, indigenous value systems are ideals of harmonious relationships, I compare and contrast traditional African and Chinese conceptions of harmony and analyze a number of respects in which an appeal to (...)
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  50. Ubuntu: an ethic for a new South Africa.Augustine Shutte - 2001 - Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
    This is a sequel to Augustine Shutte's previous book Philosophy for Africa. In that book he engages with some concepts central to traditional African thinking about human nature and society. In this book he offers a new interpretation of the chief ethical idea in African thought, Ubuntu. He argues that it complements the central European ethical notion of individual freedom, and shows how the two ideas can be combined to form an ethic based on a richer understanding (...)
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