The African Philosophy of Self-destruction
Author: Fayiso Liyang Stevens
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780620501514
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Political Self Destruction of Most African Americans
Author: Ernest Lawson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1426930062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book offers an explicit explanation of Africans, and their transformational toils to America in sixteen nineteen. And their adaptability, based on chronological records of significant events, related to genetic heritage, concurring with current society. Based on reality (not) racism.
The Jihadis' Path to Self-destruction
Author: Nelly Lahoud
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780231701808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJihadi ideologues mobilize Muslims, especially young Muslims, through an individualist, centered Islam. Appealing to a classical defense doctrine, they argue that the mandates of jihad are the individual duty of every Muslim and therefore transcend and undermine both the authority of the state and the power of parental control. Yet emphasizing the duty and right of individually initiated jihad is just one side of do-it-yourself Islam. The other involves protecting the purity of doctrinal beliefs against deviation, even by fellow jihadis. The pursuit of doctrinal purity has led some jihadis to resort to takfir, a pronouncement that declares fellow Muslims unbelievers and makes it legal to shed their blood. Set against the background of the Kharijites, Islam's first counter-establishment movement, this book explores the religious philosophy underlying jihadism. The Kharijites's idealistic and individualistic ideology forces members to deploy takfir against one another, thus hastening their extinction as a group.
An Introduction to African Philosophy
Author: Maurice Muhatia Makumba
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9966082964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe African Philosophy Reader
Author: Pieter Hendrik Coetzee
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780415189057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides a thorough introduction to African philosophy, literature, religion and anthropology through twenty-five readings from key thinkers. They discuss topics such as African culture, epistemology, metaphysics and religion, political philosophy, aesthetics, and explore rationality and explanation in an African context.
Neo-Africanism
Author: Papa Yalae
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 142517678X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeo-Africanism: The New Ideology for a New Africa is a vision of an African renaissance grounded in traditional African philosophies of social harmony and mutual interdependence. The author calls for Africans to deconstruct the multiplicity of divisive and antagonistic political ideologies that have dominated Africa since the demise of colonialism and replace them with one harmonious and co-operative political ideology—Neo-Africanism—a unified ideology grounded in the social harmony and interdependence that characterized traditional African life. He shows how this ideology can be applied successfully to the politics, economics, education, and health care of Africa and how it can help create a New Africa—a reawakened, peaceful, and prosperous Africa highly regarded by all the nations of the world. The book is aimed at students of African studies, political science, philosophy, macroeconomics, and international relations, as well as the general population of Africans and the African political elite. Both undergraduate and graduate students will find the book helpful because of the comprehensive analysis and solutions to problems in the important areas of a nation. Unlike existing books, Neo-Africanism provides philosophical guidance that will empower the people of Africa to solve Africa’s problems and to acquire the capability to create sustainable peace and prosperity.
The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and Beyond African Philosophy
Author: Innocent Asouzu
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9783825885786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions relating to types of philosophical trends within African philosophy can be very decisive for any idea of African philosophy. In this strikingly novel approach to African Philosophy, the author explores a complementary philosophical trend that goes back to those he calls anonymous traditional African philosophers. Based on their thoughts, he articulates a distinctive variant of the principles, method and imperative of complementarity (Ibu anyi danda) around which he builds his system. He anchors his reflection on such ambient concepts as the joy of being (jide k' iji), fragmentation, wholeness, and future reference.
The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy
Author: B. Bin-Kapela
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2011-09-26
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9956726761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a clarion call for African renaissance informed by African spirituality. It develops the vision that Africans can be the same in the process of change. Africans have to coincide with their ways of perceiving values, and to retrieve their identity wiped out by regrettable historical events. Even in this involvement of revalorisation of their stifled ways, Africans have to be aware of the fact that history has evolved and new human environments are taking place. Any attempt to recover African personality involves a triple necessity. First, to remember the past, second, to analyse critically what Africans have inherited from their past, and lastly, to project new ways and means for a genuine renaissance, free from alienation and exploitation. Bin-Kapela sees in Cultural hermeneutics an appropriate philosophical method to achieve this end of recognising and projecting African spirituality as a universal value.
Nyanyan Gohn-Manan
Author: Syrulwa Somah
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2003-03-10
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 140333367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI write to you through Bassa, of the Niger-Congo family, western Sudanic subgroup and the Kwa branch of Africa. The Bassa are an African people. The central theme of this book is that the Bassa have a form of government, which shows Bassa people can govern themselves, and that they have done so from time immemorial until the interjection of alien leadership philosophy. Non-Africans should be dissuaded from their concept of African inability to govern themselves. Bassa history and leadership shows one aspect of African leadership as well as contributions to human leadership. Presenting the Bassa leadership to the world is a clarion call for all Africans to look to their traditional route to design a form of government that fits their culture.
African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition
Author: Bruce B. Janz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1350292192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world neatly maps onto specifically African epistemologies to outline a new direction of study on what philosophy is. By working through a rich range of texts and thinkers, Janz provides a fruitful new interpretation of African philosophy and provides close readings of seminal and sidelined thinkers to provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars. Janz's study takes in the creative humanism of Sylvia Wynter, Placide Tempels's Bantu Philosophy, Mbiti's theory of time, Oruka's last work on sage philosophy, Mogobe Ramose's own version of Ubuntu, Sophie Oluwole's active literature of philosophy, Achille Mbembe's excoriating attack on the effects of colonialism on life in Africa, and Suzanne Césaire writings on négritude. This book reorients African philosophy towards an active and creative future informed by enactivist thinking.
