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Maluleka, P., and T. Mathebula. "Trends in African philosophy and their implications for the Africanisation of the South Africa history caps curriculum: a case study of Odera Oruka philosophy." Yesterday and Today 27 (2022): 65–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2223-0386/2022/n27a3.
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A Kenyan philosopher, Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995), conceptualised and articulated the six trends in African philosophy. These are ethno-philosophy, nationalistic-ideological philosophy, artistic (or literary philosophy), professional philosophy, philosophic sagacity and hermeneutic philosophy. In this article, we maintain that the last three of these trends, namely professional philosophy, philosophic sagacity, and hermeneutic philosophy, are useful in our attempt to contribute to Africanising the school history curriculum (SHC) in the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in post-apartheid South Africa. Against this background, we make use of Maton's (2014) Epistemic-Pedagogic Device (EPD), building on from Bernstein's (1975) Pedagogic Device as a theoretical framework to view African philosophy and its implications for the Africanisation of the SHC in CAPS in post-apartheid South Africa. Through the lens of Maton's EPD, we show how the CAPS' philosophy of education is questionable; untenable since it promotes 'differences of content'; and is at the crossroads, i.e., it is stretched and pulled in different directions in schools. Ultimately, we argue that Oruka's three trends form a three-piece suit advertising one's academic discipline (professional philosophy); showing South Africa's rich history told in the words ofAfrican elders (sage philosophy); and imploring school history learners to embark on a restless, unfinished quest for knowledge in the classrooms in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Dr., Ratzinger E. E. Nwobodo (Ph.D). "DECOLONIZING AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY." UAI Journal of Multidisciplinary & Cultural Studies (UAIJMCS) 1, no. 3 (2025): 01–08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332630.
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<em>This paper is an effort towards intellectual decolonization of Africa. Over the years, Africa has faced epistemic violence and imperialism which has till recent times continued to deny Africa her pride of place in the global scheme of intellectualism. The central focus of this paper is on the decolonization of African philosophy. The paper discusses the approaches to decolonizing African philosophy from Western entanglement, to sieve out the core African philosophy. Through a thorough analytical and hermeneutical method of research, the research discovers as would be seen in the discussion that African philosophy has undergone so much relegation and criticism from the hands of the Western philosophers such as David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lucien Levy- Bruhl and many others philosophers. In response to the many criticisms and marginalization of African philosophy emerged various trends in African philosophy which includes: Ethno philosophers, philosophical sagacity, the professionals, Nationalistic/ideological philosophers, Artistic schools, Historical schools and Hermeneutical schools. For an authentic decolonization to be possible, the paper recommends some processes such as rediscovery, reforming the system of education, reclaiming the indigenous language, reaffirming African spirituality and religion, promoting cultural pride and African identity and other suggested approaches suggested by the paper for an authentic decolonization of African philosophy.</em>
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Misia, M. M. Kadenyi, and Michael Kariuki. "Pedagogy of Sagacity." Msingi Journal 1, no. 2 (2018): 120–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33886/mj.v1i2.48.
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Philosophy of education is a compulsory course in teacher education in Africa. African scholars have observed that this course is predominantly approached from Western pedagogical perspective hence alienating African students of education. There is lack of African pedagogy responsive to the African context of education as noted by a national commission on education in Kenya. This calls for a search for African pedagogy to instigate paradigm shift from Western pedagogy to Afrocentric pedagogy. Sage Philosophy,a trend in African Philosophy is analyzed in this study in attempt to develop African pedagogy. The method used is philosophical argument based on critical conceptual analysis. The study findings result in an African pedagogy described as ‘pedagogy of sagacity’ which is proposed as an African approach to philosophy of education. The thesis of this essay is that trends in African philosophy should influence pedagogical theorizing of education in Africa.
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Rettová, Alena. "Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: The Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994–2019." Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society 9, no. 1 (2021): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v9i1.360.
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This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide. The article projects a fundamental tension into the history of recent African philosophy: between optimism and idealism, showing in the development of normative concepts and a new philosophical vocabulary for Africa – a “conceptual mandelanization” (Edet 2015: 218), on the one hand, and a critical realism ensuing from the experience of African “simple, that is, flawed, humanity” (Nganang: 2007: 30), on the other. The article identifies prominent trends in African philosophy since 1994, including Ubuntu, the Calabar School of Philosophy, Afrikology, the Ateliers de la pensée, Francophone histories of African philosophy, and Lusophone political and cultural philosophy.
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Ignatius, Nnaemeka Onwuatuegwu, and Chukwuebuka Obianika Peter. "The Rootedness of African Metaphysics in African Philosophy." International Journal of Contemporary Research in Multidisciplinary 1, no. 1 (2022): 05–08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8125147.
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For the Africans, the reason for the physical is the spiritual. Consequently, the African ontological notion of the interminglingness, interpermeatibility, intertwiningness and the interpenetratibility of the spiritual (metaphysical) and the physical world seems to becloud the whole range of an African man's world view. It is, therefore, in the explication of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence that the issue of metaphysics emerged. An African is by nature religious and as such does not admit the disjointedness and departmentalization of the spiritual and the physical. Both is considered as nothing but the two sides of one and the same coin. It is on this backdrop that the researchers determined to explicate the rootedness of African metaphysics in African philosophy. The authors intend to achieve the purpose of the study via the methodological framework of reflective approach.
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Mosima, Pius M. "Francophone African Philosophy: History, trends and influences." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 7, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v7i1.1.
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Chukwujekwu, Ejike Sam-Festus. "African Philosophy in the Contemporary World." Logos et Praxis, no. 2 (September 2019): 143–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2019.2.13.
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This author focuses on African philosophy issues, ideas and the major trends of its development in the contemporary world. The researcher emphasizes that one of the main trends in the development of African philosophy in the contemporary world is the search for African identity, ideas of African renaissance. The development of African philosophy in the early and mid 20th century had the immense influence of the anticolonial movement, which resulted in rapid development of socio-political movements. The article discusses the most influential of them, such as negritude, Pan-Africanism, African socialism, and others. The paper is of particular interest due to the fact that the countries of this continent have undergone a different path of development. From the very moment of the discovery of the continent, the states located in it were viewed and existed as colonies of European countries, i.e. they were ruled by the metropolis, which established its political and economic power. In addition to the negative impact of the metropolis it had a positive one. With the arrival of the Europeans European culture and values came, that ultimately led to the fight for independence. The article also discusses the major stages of European colonization of the 15th-19th centuries, also the difficulties and challenges in obtaining freedom from the metropolis, which became a new impetus for the development of philosophical views. Taking into account African identity and European culture and values, the significant role of the African Renaissance and socio-political teachings are considered as a way of developing African philosophy in the modern world. The author pays special attention to the African historiographic survey, to four periodization stages of African philosophy: (early period, second period, late period, and a new era). The researcher also presents traditional thought and suggestions of a typology of tendencies by African philosophers in modern African philosophy.
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Grace Gatawa, Nyasha. "The Rising Influence of Sustainability in South Africa’s Fashion Industry." African Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1, no. 1 (2022): 93–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2753-314x/2022/v1n1a4.
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The designer fashion industry has become a key creative sector and a vibrant wave of fashion innovation has transformed the global fashion industry from a small economy to a significant economic sector in a bustling global creative and arts scene. The African fashion industry has shown creative dynamism and innovation aligned to global trends but infused with a unique cultural flavour showcasing the range of creative dynamism on the African continent. Sustainability has risen to the fore as a design philosophy and an integral part of garment making. In line with global trends, sustainability has heralded a new era in fashion design globally very evidently. In this paper trends in the fashion industry are explored with a focus on Johannesburg and South Africa as well as the influence of a growing move towards sustainability becoming more evident globally and in South Africa.
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Gribanova, Valentina. "On the Question of the Trends in the Development of Islam in South Africa." ISTORIYA 13, no. 3 (113) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840020261-6.
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The article discusses the ways of penetration of Islam into South Africa and the forces that played a significant role in its spread in this territory. The development of reformist tendencies in South African Islam during the second half of the 20th century is analyzed. It is noted that although in South Africa there were supporters of progressive trends in the reform of Islam, their number was minimal. There were significantly more adherents of the conservative trend in Islam. The special role of the Deobandi school and the Tablighi Jamaat movement among the supporters of the conservative direction is noted. A review of Muslim organizations that were actively created during the 20th century is given. These organizations were aimed at strengthening Islam in South African society and increasing the number of believers. The strengthening of the role of tarikats — Muslim spiritual orders, in the religious life of South African Muslims from the end of the 20th century is noted. The role of Islamic education, which has been increasing its importance in South Africa in recent decades, is emphasized.
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Ajibade, George Olusola. "A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs." Yoruba Studies Review 8, no. 2 (2023): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.8.2.134888.
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The Christianity that reached Africa, especially the sub-Saharan region, had undergone several stages of inculturation and re-organization. The changing social, political, and cultural situation of the people had a tremendous impact on the Christian religion. As Christianity moved through the intellectual and political worlds, especially among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria, it acquired new categories of thought. Yorùbá philosophical language began to be applied in expressing some of the mysteries of the Christian faith. This was particularly evident in the articulation of the theological language expressed through various Christian songs. Different types of songs collected during the worship among the selected African Indigenous Churches and those produced by some artists were analyzed through the lens of textual exegesis. This paper considered the impact of the emerging trend of diffusion of African philosophy, worldviews, and Christian theology in the selected Christian songs. This in turn revealed the dynamism or the emerging trends in African Christianity that authenticate the pluricultural nature of contemporary world Christianity. The work demonstrated that Christianity is an essential part of the identity of the Yorùbá people, which is best demonstrated in the folkloric expressions, especially songs.
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Anakwue, Nicholas Chukwudike. "The African Origins of Greek Philosophy: Ancient Egypt in Retrospect." Phronimon 18 (February 22, 2018): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/2361.
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The demand of philosophising in Africa has faced a history of criticism that has been particularly Eurocentric and strongly biased. However, that trend is changing with the emergence of core philosophical thinking in Africa. This paper is an attempt to articulate a singular issue in this evolution—the originality of African philosophy, through Ancient Egypt and its influence on Greek philosophy. The paper sets about this task by first exposing the historical debate on the early beginnings of the philosophical enterprise, with a view to establishing the possibility of philosophical influences in Africa. It then goes ahead to posit the three hypotheses that link Greek philosophy to have developed from the cultural materiality of Ancient Egypt, and the Eurocentric travesty of history in recognising influences of philosophy as from Europe alone, apart from Egypt.
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Fru, Raymond Nkwenti. "Main Trends of History Teaching in Africa From a Postcolonial Perspective." ISTORIYA 14, S23 (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840025589-6.
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History education has always been a highly contested terrain especially in contexts whose pasts are marred by huge controversial, sensitive and emotive moments. This reality is more significant in the African continent, where issues such as slavery, colonisation, decolonisation, the partition of Africa; border crises; complexity of identity; race; apartheid, wars, xenophobia; chauvinism; military coups, forced evictions and subsequent land reclamations, are some of the key themes and discourses that are characteristic of its history. This experiential reflection and theoretical paper draw from the researcher’s personal experiences as a history teacher/lecturer in at least three African countries and from literature to reflect on the main trends of History teaching and learning in Africa. Although there has been a wave of curricular decolonisation in Africa at the turn of the century, including in History teaching, the article argues that there is still a lot of reasons to be concerned about the state of history teaching as a subject. The article acknowledges an existential and humane need for a reconstruction, decolonisation and Africanisation of the history curriculum in Africa by means of postcolonial socio-cultural and epistemic systems and practices that reclaim indigenous African voices in curriculum knowledge. The article recommends that history teaching and curriculum in postcolonial Africa need to move away from discrete and sometimes overt, heroic, one-dimensional and neatly packaged master narratives that deny students the opportunity to critically engage and interrogate the rich and complex histories as a pathway to improve the relevance of the subject in the continent.
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Modiri, Joel. "Azanian Political Thought and the Undoing of South African Knowledges." Theoria 68, no. 168 (2021): 42–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2021.6816804.
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This article sets out a few key questions, themes, and problems animating an Azanian social and political philosophy, with specific reference to the radical promise of undoing South African disciplinary knowledges. The article is made up of two parts: The first part discusses the epistemic and political forces arrayed against black radical thought in South Africa and beyond. A few current trends of anti-black thinking – liberal racism, Left Eurocentrism, and postcolonial post-racialism – which pose challenges for the legibility of Azanian critique are outlined. Part two constructs an exposition and synthesis of key tenets of Azanian thinking elaborated upon under three signs: ‘South Africa’, ‘race and racism’, and ‘Africa’. The aim of the discussion is to illustrate the critical, emancipatory potential of Azanian thought and its radical incommensurability with dominant strands of scholarship in the human and social sciences today. The article ultimately defends the reassertion of black radical thought in the South African academy today and underscores in particular the abolitionist drive of Azanian political thought.
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Popova, Kseniya. "Trends in European Historiography of African History in the Second Half of the 20th Century." ISTORIYA 13, no. 3 (113) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840020927-8.
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The article is devoted to the main trends in Western historiography of Africa in the second half of the XX century. The author examines how approaches and ideas in the study of African history by European and American scientists were changing during the formation of African studies as a separate science. There is a change in the perception of Africa by Western scientists from the “unhistorical” object of the world history to the region with its own unique history. The article highlights the influence of historical processes on changes of the views and approaches of Africanists. The author has come to the conclusion that Western historiography during the reviewed period has significantly expanded its theoretical and methodological base and it has made significant progress in the study of African history.
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Filatova, Irina. "Centre for African Studies of the Institute of World History RAS: the Place in African Studies — Soviet, Russian, and Abroad." ISTORIYA 13, no. 3 (113) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840020256-0.
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The article looks at the most important tendencies and trends in foreign (mostly English language), Soviet and Russian African Studies, from the 1960s (and even earlier, as far as Soviet African studies are concerned) util today. It offers a comparative analysis of their trajectories and assesses them from the point of view of their contribution to our understanding of Africa and to African studies. Against this backdrop the author assesses the work of the Centre for African Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, its achievements, and its contribution to the historiography of African history.
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Gavristova, Tatyana M., and Nadezhda E. Khokholkova. "Postcolonial Epistemology: African “Registers”." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 22, no. 4 (2022): 688–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2022-22-4-688-699.
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With global digitalization and the resulting intensification of communication processes, the accumulation and retransmission of ideas and their connotations have accelerated. The academic environment has changed in the course of updating the research field and building up a new picture of the world, complex and diversified. The accumulation of “critical mass” of talented intellectual scholars based both in Africa and within the African Diaspora, focused on “breakthrough” in philosophy and epistemology, was reflected in an attack on the theoretical principles of postmodernism and Postcolonialism and a dynamic transformation of the conceptual principles and content of African studies. Contrary to Eurocentrism, Africa has become an epistemological laboratory, where the developing theories claiming to become metanarratives, within which new metalexemes and metagenres are emerging. Postcolonial discourse contains elements of metascience, a universal system of knowledge production. The interrelation of facts and methodology in their framework fully corresponds to the trends of the time in the era of algorithms, and their choice both forms the mechanisms of scientific knowledge, but also ensures success in the fight against stereotypes, not only racial and ethnic. The theoretical and methodological significance of postcolonial studies refers to the actualization of the “crossroad” problems in the history of Africa and the Diaspora, such as colonialism and decolonization, ethnicity and identity, hybridity and otherness, essentialism and transcendence, exodus and exile. In the present article the authors focus on the results of the interaction of researchers of African descent with postcolonial theory, as well as on the ideas of postcoloniality and decoloniality, which to a certain extent oppose each other. Particular attention is paid to the development of an updated epistemology of knowledge in the process of the formation of the “postcolonial library,” which includes the works of many scholars from Franz Fanon and Leopold Senghor to Kwame Anthony Appiah and Achille Mbembe.
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Ibanga, Diana-Abasi. "Exploring Recent Themes in African Spiritual Philosophy." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 11, no. 4 (2023): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v11i4.8s.
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There are theoretical and thematic shifts in African spiritual philosophy literature on the meaning of spirituality. On the one hand, traditional conceptions of spirituality are based on the dimensions of transcendence and supernaturalism. Common themes include ritualism, totemism, incantation, ancestorism, reincarnation, destiny, metempsychosis, witchcraft, death, soul, deities, etc. On the other hand, the evolving trend appeals to naturality and immanence. Common themes include sacrality, piety, respectability, relatability, existential gratitude, sacred feminine, etc. This work explores these recent and developing themes. It aims to show that the understanding of spirituality in African modernity is increasingly linked to psychological traits expressed in attitude and behaviour as against traditional understanding that focused on cultural/ religious practices such as ritualism, ancestorism, and deities. The analysis reveals that recent studies link the experience of spirituality with wholeness and interdependence, and a recognition of one’s place in the connective web of other existents in nature
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Tainton, N. M. "Recent trends in grazing management philosophy in South Africa." Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa 2, no. 4 (1985): 4–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02566702.1985.9648011.
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Lwanga-Lumu, Joy Christine. "Intercultural Communicative Component (ICC) in the English Second Language (EL2) Curricula: Trends and Challenges of Transformation in South Africa (SA) and the Global World." Journal of Intercultural Communication 20, no. 1 (2020): 01–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v20i1.300.
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Globally, universities are tremendously pressurised to improve throughput rates, intercultural proficiency, and academic transformation. However, at some universities, educators often neglect the ICC component in EL2 teaching. This article analyses the feasibility of integrating the ICC component into the EL2 courses, to enhance curricula decolonisation, intellectual and cultural freedom in South African universities. From a socio-cognitive perspective, the article argues that in SA, understanding ecological, ideological, affective and sociolinguistic elements, based on the Ubuntu philosophy (a humanness spirit that embodies (South) African culture) is significant for global IC and learning. Innovative integration of plurilingualism perspectives into the Humanities curricula may have implications for academic success, especially in English and ICC, global trade, democracy and social transformation.
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Okolisah, Chinenye Precious. "Assessing the Impacts of Globalization on Kwasi Wiredu’s Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 11, no. 5 (2020): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2020-0054.
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There are two fundamental ideas in which Kwasi Wiredu apply his conceptual decolonization. These to him are two complementary things that are both negative and positive. In the negative sense, Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization is the process that seeks to avoid and reverse “through a critical self-awareness the unexamined assimilation” in the thoughts of contemporary African philosophers those conceptual frameworks that are found in western or other philosophical cultures that have influenced African ways of life and thought. On the positive side, conceptual decolonization to Wiredu involves the exploitation of the vast “resources” of African conceptual frameworks in philosophical exercises or reflections on all the basic and crucial problems of contemporary philosophy. This establishes Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization on historical foundation of the African problems through the process of colonialism. This historical trend in Africa has significant impacts on the whole of African system, which include education, politics, culture, science, technology, religion, culture, language, and thought patterns. These suggest that African contemporary systems are greatly influenced through the means of language, religion and politics; and the methods of science and technology. However, a critical reflection on these indicate that Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization is distinctly opposed to the principles and tenets of globalization as a socio-political concept that is inspired by economic ideas, which are anchored on technological innovativeness and development. This explains the fact that globalization is driven by technological revolutionary and innovative ideas that are powered and energized by information, computer technology (ICT). This process thrives to link the world to a common system of circuit from where all knowledge and activities in the world can be viewed and known. This characteristically shrinks the world to what has been described as “global village” in an integrative pattern. These clearly in diverse manners promote interculturalism and interdependence to the extent that no nation or continent can be seen as an island. The world through globalization has been fused in a way that Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization has been rendered a philosophical failed project with no practical and epistemological relevance. In this paper therefore, effort will be made to assess the impacts of globalization on Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization. We submit that globalization has a more pragmatic, socio-economic and political allures to prevent Wiredu’s conceptual decolonization from making any positive impact on African philosophy. Our approach here will be analytic and speculative.
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Maduka, Enyimba. "Ezumezu logical system as a sceptical trend in contemporary African philosophy." Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 3, no. 2 (2024): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v3i2.3.
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My aim in this paper is to tease out the sceptical dimension of Ezumezu logic, which is the logic that grounds the method of conversational thinking. I engage with the question of the place of scepticism in African philosophy and show that Ezumezu logic is a sceptical trend in contemporary African philosophy. I argue that the nature of the basic principles and concepts, such as arumaristics, thesis of regimented ontology, benoke point, tension of incommensurables, disjunctive-conjuctive motion, and methodological anarchy, that constitute a major part of Ezumezu logical system point to the need for continuous inquiry while suspending judgement, thereby encouraging the production of new thoughts. I demonstrate that this suspension of judgment is a basic tenet of scepticism.
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Zefanya, Anastasia. "Harmonisasi Hukum Bisnis Transnasional Di Negara Kamerun." IKRA-ITH HUMANIORA : Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora 6, no. 3 (2022): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.37817/ikraith-humaniora.v6i3.2183.
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An important question concerning legal uniformity under OHADA is, can OHADA bridgebetween the common law system and the civil law system? Is OHADA compatible with commonlaw? Does OHADA have the capacity to address the diversity of African legal and judicialtraditions? Does OHADA take into account African cultural and traditional norms? It seems thatif not, then the integration process will be an uncomfortable marriage. Can Cameroon's longitudebe maintained, much less promoted, in the context of OHADA? Can meaningful reforms takenational particulars into account? The thing that is of greater concern is whether OHADA canaccommodate the contradictory conditions of contemporary society and the challenges ofglobalization and modernization. The right approach should be to promote laws, principles, andpractices that conform to conventional and universally accepted standards of fairness and justicethat are modified to suit the realities of Cameroon and Africa. This article will discuss thehistorical background of Cameroon's legal framework, the nature, current trends of Uniform Lawreform, and the challenges of developing and implementing the OHADA Agreement and theUniform Act. Finally, in keeping with the spirit and philosophy that the legal system is meant toserve as the touchstone of justice and equality, this Article proposes its way forward with theOHADA Agreement and the Uniform Act, which have come to stay
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Schiebinger, Londa. "Feminist History of Colonial Science." Hypatia 19, no. 1 (2004): 233–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01276.x.
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This essay offers a short overview of feminist history of science and introduces a new project into that history, namely feminist history of colonial science. My case study focuses on eighteenth-century voyages of scientific discovery and reveals how gender relations in Europe and the colonies honed selective collecting practices. Cultural, economic, and political trends discouraged the transfer from the New World to the Old of abortifacients (widely used by Amerindian and African women in the West Indies).1
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Ikuenobe, Polycarp. "AN EXAMINATION OF THE UNIVERSALIST TREND REGARDING THE NATURE OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY." Journal of Social Philosophy 27, no. 2 (1996): 187–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.1996.tb00246.x.
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Rulashe, Tando. "A theory-based analysis of labour unions in the South African Public Service." Otoritas : Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan 14, no. 3 (2025): 751–71. https://doi.org/10.26618/ojip.v14i3.15265.
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This study provides a theory-based analysis of labour unions in the South African Public Service (SAPS), focusing on the evolving dynamics of labour relations, power structures, and collective bargaining processes. The research investigates how both historical legacies and contemporary socio-economic conditions shape the role of unions within the public sector. Specifically, the study examines the influence of apartheid-era policies, post-apartheid reforms, and the impact of global economic trends on labour organisations. Theoretical frameworks such as institutional theory, social movement theory, and marxist perspectives, along with indigenous frameworks like ubuntu philosophy, worker democracy, liberation unionism, and social movement unionism, underpin the analysis. The research follows a qualitative design, drawing on an in-depth analysis of academic literature, policy documents, legal frameworks, and secondary data sources to uncover trends and patterns in labour relations. Key findings reveal a complex interplay of socio-economic inequalities, political governance, and legislative frameworks that continue to shape union activities within the SAPS. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of socio-cultural dynamics in understanding labour relations within a historically charged environment. This paper contributes to theoretical debates in industrial relations by offering nuanced insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting unions in the South African public sector. The findings have practical implications for policymakers, union leaders, and public administration practitioners aiming to encourage more equitable labour relations and promote social justice. Ultimately, the study provides a framework for rethinking labour union strategies in light of contemporary challenges and the broader pursuit of transformation in the public service.
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E. Mafigu and B.C. Chisaka. "The Role of Rural Educational Leadership in Influencing Societal Behaviour: A Case Study of Goromonzi District: Educational Leaders’ Perceptive." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 3, no. 5 (2020): 149–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.5.17.
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This study establishes the role of rural educational leadership in influencing societal behaviour, focusing Goromonzi District. It was positioned alongside the behavioural theories and the African unhu/ubuntu philosophy, informed by a qualitative case study. It made use of interviews, focus group discussions and observations in the generation of data from a purposive sample of three rural secondary schools. The rural context has its own set of unique community identifiers, making rural schools remarkably different from those found in the urban centres. The rural community is experiencing an influx of urban migration and as a result, the disturbance of an ideal rural setting is posing a challenge to the educational leadership in impacting the societal behaviour in the way it ought to be. Moreover, the educational leadership in the rural community is often characterised by lack of understanding of the rural communities’ traditional beliefs and practices, giving rise to contradictions with what the educational leadership intends to promote and encourage at times. Consequently, a cultural shift and contextual adaptation of distinctive attitudes and behaviours that enhance positive behaviour transformation becomes imperative. Above it all, studying rural behavioural trends as a response to educational leadership was paradoxical journey. The study thus, concludes that while literature points out that leadership has a direct influence of the behaviour of its community, this cannot go far unless the educational leadership deliberately aligns its own behaviour with the dictates of unhu/ubuntu philosophy which has a place in the African rural context.
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Kovalev, Mikhail. "Ivan Potekhin and the First International Congress of Africanists in 1962." ISTORIYA 14, S23 (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840025653-7.
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The article is devoted to the role of I. I. Potekhin (1903—1964), a Soviet scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet African Studies, in the organization of the First International Congress of Africanists, held in Ghana on December 11—18, 1962. On the basis of archival documents, the painful process of preparation headed by I. I. Potekhin the Soviet delegation to participate in the congress. This example clearly demonstrates the sluggishness of the Soviet bureaucracy, which was unable to respond to the challenges of the time, to capture really relevant, and not imaginary, social, political and scientific trends. As a result, the Soviet delegation turned out to be very modest in number, contrary to initial expectations. The opportunity to go to Africa was not given to those who needed it. Nevertheless, for Soviet scientists who nevertheless went to Ghana, participation in the congress turned out to be successful and useful. The article showed that, despite the commitment to dogmatic Soviet Marxism, I. I. Potekhin managed to build quite successful business relations with both Western and African colleagues, which undoubtedly had a positive effect on the process of organizing the First Congress of Africanists. Although the congress was not without sharp disputes and discussions, its work, on the whole, took place in a friendly atmosphere. Potekhin’s stubborn desire to develop African studies outside the Western world fit into the decolonization discourse and was clearly ahead of its time. It is concluded that the congress in Ghana has become an important milestone in the development and institutionalization of world African studies.
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Oyedeji, Wale. "Reflections on the Yoruba Past: Toyin Falola on Isaac Delano." Yoruba Studies Review 4, no. 2 (2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v4i2.130049.
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Toyin Falola remains one of the most illuminating voices with remarkable efforts to reposition the continent of Africa on the appropriate place on the global map. He has provided sufficient evidence that he deserves the accolades he attracts from contemporaries and admirers. More than many of his contemporaries, Toyin Falola continues to demonstrate that knowledge production from Africa is sustainable if past events are interrogated accordingly. In very many ways, he displays quality content that gives him the sort of image he has built for Africans generally, and himself particularly in the world of intellectualism. The debate about the essentialism of African knowledge economy, especially the Yoruba culture, is centuries old, and frozen in its condition. It became prominently popular from the beginning of African’s contact with Europeans and Arabs, and this, ever since then, has attracted deepened engagement by African scholars whose primary intention was to defend their cultural legacy.
 Understanding that the proliferation of such desecrating rhetoric that Africans are a people without history by Eurocentric scholars like Trevor Roper and David Hume was a consummate attempt to undermine their existence, and then justify their expansionist agenda, makes African scholars of various disciplines to stand in defense of their history, hence decolonization process in pre- and post-independence era. Apparently, it was Edward Said who asserts that, “domination and inequities of power and wealth are perennial facts of human society. But in today’s global setting they are also interpretable as having something to do with imperialism, its history, its new forms.”1 It thus seems that the generations that witnessed such unmistakable assault on their cultural heritage were not ready to accept it in good faith, and this provoked 1 Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1993, p.19. 270 Wale Oyedeji corresponding resistance from them. They however reacted intellectually. It was in the spirit of reacting defensively that the first, second and third generations of historians emerged. Their sudden increase in the production of intelligent materials sent such a strong signal to the West so much that the world was compelled to change their erroneous misconception about Africa and Africans. As such, scholars like Samuel Johnson, Isaac Delano, Kenneth Dike, Bala Usman, Obaro Ikime, Bolanle Awe and a host of others took up the challenge of setting the record straight.
 The trend continues in that fashion even in postcolonial environment. For one thing, it birthed the Ibadan School of History, an intellectual society that achieved beautiful and daunting results in their quest for African cultural redemption. Many contemporary scholars consider the efforts of these pioneer intellectuals purposely because their works provide sufficient background to understanding African cultures and values, its steady evolution and travails. As such, in this writing, I intend to consider the greatness of Yoruba culture, a people in West Africa, visa-a-vie their precolonial undertaking and their colonial experience. Leaning on the works of Isaac Delano, this work will look into the Yoruba past to reflect on the culture, philosophy, ideology, epistemology and ontology of the people, with a view to educating the general public on the inexhaustible items of their knowledge economy and productions. Falola has done exponentially well to relate to us the seemingly beautiful body of works produced by Isaac Delano in journals, newspapers, periodicals, personal records among many other things. All these are indications that ingenuity cannot be covered by the web of power because while power is transient, ingenuity that persists is not.
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Damen, Jos. "Electronic Journals and Africa Studies: An Overview and Some Trends." African Research & Documentation 109 (2009): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00016460.
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Many commercial and non-commercial initiatives regarding electronic journals have started in the last decade. They are, however/so widespread and ad hoc that a complete overview of all online journals is not possible. This paper offers a brief description of the current state of affairs concerning electronic journals from and about Africa and highlights some of the trends.Paper journals have existed since 1665 when the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appeared in London and Le Journal des Scavans in Paris. A hundred years later more than ten scientific journals were available, mostly published by learned societies in Europe. And by 1850, there were well over a thousand journals with articles specialising in all different scientific fields from ethnology to medicine and geology to philosophy. By 1980 there were well over 180,000 different scientific journals.
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Heinicke, Craig W. "One Step Forward: African-American Married Women in the South, 1950-1960." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31, no. 1 (2000): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002219500551488.
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The labor-force participation of African-American married women in the southern United States was increasing during a period of deteriorating labor markets when that of African-American men was decreasing. Although the effect of this development on the African-American family was complex, the trend was certainly a sign of limited progress for these women. The jobs that they were able to acquire were generally better than their customary work since the Civil War, despite the adverse labor-market shocks to which African-American families were subject.
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Ogbenika, Gregory Ebalu. "Martin Luther King Jr: Non-violence resistance and the problem of terrorism in Africa." Idea. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych 30, no. 1 (2018): 259–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/idea.2018.30.1.19.
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Martin Luther King Jr. cannot be said to have addressed the problem of terrorism in general because he proposed his philosophy of non-violence resistance within the context of the oppression, injustice, segregation, violence and discrimination suffered by the African Americans. Nevertheless, his philosophy captured ways by which we can fittingly address the problem of terrorism. Many of the methods of non-violence given by Martin Luther King Jr. are of paramount importance in the face of terrorism. His philosophy is basically important today in Nigeria owing to the fact that our unity as a country is threatened by the recurring activities of terrorism and as such we are at a cross road in the history of our country, where drastic decisions have to be taken to address this perilous trend. The philosophy of non-violent resistance as proposed by Martin Luther King Jr. is a veritable step towards a working solution, as it is not only an outcry against terrorism of any sort, but also an ideology that frowns against any form of action that results in the taking of human life or the carnage that comes with violence. His non-violent resistance theory which he developed after a deep study of Mahatma Gandhi’s theory of non-violence, is a radical approach towards the fight against violence of any sort inflicted on the African Americans of his time, an action borne of a passionate fight against racism. So, to aptly address the problem of terrorism in Nigeria, it is necessary we consult and apply some principles of the philosophy of non-violence resistance as postulated by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Loubser, S. S. "The relationship between a market orientation and financial performance in South African organisations." South African Journal of Business Management 31, no. 2 (2000): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v31i2.737.
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Organisations are in constant flux and with powerful universal trends such as globalisation, technological discontinuity, deregulation and new competencies within a continuously changing environment, both business leaders and academics are searching for new insights into organisational dynamics. In recent years more and more academics have suggested that a market orientation should be considered as a business philosophy and/or business behaviour that will lead to better business performance. However, not much research has been done on this organisational phenomenon and it is not well understood. Market orientation has been defined in this study as the business culture that is focused on creating mutually rewarding relationships between customers and the organisation based on a foundation where (I) the interests of all stakeholders are actively pursued: (2) competitive advantage is based on the organisation's ability to learn from the market itself, and to mobilise core competencies in response: (3) a set of beliefs exists that puts the customer's interests first: and (4) processes exist that support this belief. This study differs from previous empirical research on market orientation in that it takes a systemic view of market orientation, rather than a cause-effect view. It considered 449 unlisted and 51 listed organisations, and found that a market orientation leads to better financial results. Also, market orientation is a necessary, but maybe not sufficient, condition for business excellence, and further research needs to be done in this regard.
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Azeez, Abiola, and Tosin Adeate. "Second-wave AI and Afro-existential norms." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 9, no. 3 (2021): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v9i3.4.
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The idea of afro-existentialism connotes how Africans make sense of living and the meaning and meaninglessness attached to human existence. Different phenomena inform the way humans interpret existence, and one of such in the contemporary period, with great influence on Africans, is human involvement with non-human intelligence (AI), in its different eruptions. This paper focuses on the second-wave AI, which is a period of improved simulation of natural intelligence, whose singularity principle hypothesizes individualist motives. The paper asks, to what extent do Afroexistential norms accommodate second-wave AI? Partly in disagreement with the claim that AI is for everyone, we argue that second-wave artificial intelligence weakly adapts to Afro-existential practices, which is largely communal, emphasizing shared experience. We justify this claim by arguing that Western ethical patterns, which inform the features of the second-wave AI such as statistical patterns, smart algorithm, specialized hardware, and big data sets, emerge from individualist notions. This paper argues that second-wave AI trends do not reflect African norms of existence being factored into ordering algorithmic patterns that set up AI systems and programs. We infer that Afro-existential practices unsettles with the individualist principle which underlines second-wave AI and therefore, a conversation around the development and application of communal interpretation of AI is important.
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Elman, Cheryl, Andrew S. London, and Robert A. McGuire. "Fertility, Economic Development, and Health in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. South." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 46, no. 2 (2015): 185–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00831.
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Between 1880 and 1910, fertility among African-American women dropped more precipitously than among white women, although black women’s sociodemographic profile generally would not have predicted that trend. According to one perspective, regional differences in the timing of voluntary fertility control accounted for discrepancies by race. According to another, poor southern maternal health disproportionately affected African-American women’s fecundity, reducing their fertility. Tests based on the 1910 ipums and the 1916 U.S. Plantation Census show that, during the first three years of marriage, African-American women’s probabilities of having at least one birth, compared to white women’s probabilities, declined as marital durations increased. However, the probability of having at least one birth was lower for African-American and white tenant-farm women whose counties had more plantation agriculture. Findings support the influence of health-related factors, possibly linked to plantation agricultural development, on the “supply” of children.
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Mamaro, Lenny Phulong, and Athenia Bongani Sibindi. "Entrepreneurial Financing in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 11 (2022): 511. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15110511.
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Access to finance by small-to-medium-enterprises (SMEs) remains an enigma that still warrants further research. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the funding gap and necessitated the need for entrepreneurs to seek alternative financing due to tight credit rationing by the traditional finance institutions. There is a marked increase in demand for alternative online finance known as crowdfunding amid social distancing and lockdowns occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of this study was to examine the trends in the financing of African SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on crowdfunding. The postpositivist research philosophy and deductive strategy was adopted in this study with the view to test an existing theory and hypothesis. Secondary data sourced from TheCrowdDataCentre were utilised for the study. Eight hundred and fifty-nine African crowdfunding campaigns were employed as the unit of analysis. The study employed econometric techniques to test the research objectives of this study. The probit model was employed in the analysis. The results of the study revealed that backers, the COVID-19 and social network variables were positively and significantly related to campaign success. On the other hand, duration was found to be negatively and significantly related to crowdfunding success. The study contributes to the growing literature on the impact of COVID-19 on crowdfunding performance, as well as the literature on alternative sources of finance.
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Camps, Enriqueta, and Stanley L. Engerman. "World Population Growth: The Force of Recent Historical Trends." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44, no. 4 (2014): 509–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00612.
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The explosion of the world's population at the end of the twentieth century was largely the result of a dramatic rise in life expectancy, attributable to scientific advances, innovations in communications technology, and economic growth. High fertility, however, which might be linked with increases in population, is not always a propitious sign. Despite a global tendency toward convergence in demographic trends, high fertility in parts of Africa and Asia—as driven by such exogenous variables as infant mortality, women's education, and racial identity—militates against the improvement in living standards generally enjoyed in the more economically developed countries.
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Horáková, Hana. "Albert Kasanda. 2018. Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy: Trends, Debates and Challenges. London and New York: Routledge. 174 pp. ISBN 978-0-8153-8166-2." Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society 7, no. 1 (2019): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v7i1.267.
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Burgard, Sarah A., and Donald J. Treiman. "Trends and racial differences in infant mortality in South Africa." Social Science & Medicine 62, no. 5 (2006): 1126–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.025.
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Maikanti, Sale, Austin Chukwu, Moses Gideon Odibah, and Moses Valentina Ogu. "Globalization as a Factor for Language Endangerment: Nigerian Indigenous Languages in Focus." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 6, no. 9 (2021): 521–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v6i9.1055.
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Globalization can be viewed from economic, cultural and socio-political perspectives including information and communication technology (ICT). In view of this, it is seen as the increasing empowerment of western cultural values including language, philosophy and world view. In many African countries Nigeria inclusive, English language which is the language of colonization is gradually becoming a global language due to its influence and subsequent adoption as the official language by many African nations which are largely multi-cultural and multilingual under the British colony. This trend has not only relegated the status of Nigerian Indigenous languages to the background but has also threatened their existence in Nigeria which accommodates over 500 native languages. If this trend is left unchecked, the ill-wind of globalization will gradually sweep the native languages including the so-called major ones (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) out of existence particularly in Nigeria. This paper discusses globalization as one of the major factors for language endangerment with respect to Nigeria as a nation, with a view to proffering possible solutions capable of sustaining and empowering the nation’s socio-cultural and economic stability.
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D. M. Bukusi, Allan. "Producing Transformative Leaders in Africa through Education Pipelines." EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 3, no. 5 (2022): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.46606/eajess2022v03i05.0225.
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The purpose of this study was to the draw the attention of national governments and educators to the escalating poverty of transformative leadership in African society. Governments need to invest in the development of effective leaders for every section, sector and strata in society to transform the continent. On the contrary, education pipelines in Africa are skewed to produce a few university graduates to take up apex leadership positions in society. Yet school dropouts become field leaders who play a critical role in local governance and national transformation initiatives without a leadership education. In this study, the researcher used deductive and inductive methods to thematically analyze current approaches to pedagogy and leadership education in Africa from published literature, academic journals and descriptive statistics. The author suggests that school teachers are in a unique position to reverse the trend of poor leadership in society by equipping students with life skills to resolve social-economic challenges in their circumstances. However, empowering teachers to successfully address this need will require a substantive review of the foundations, philosophy and objectives of national education pipelines. There is also a need to review education structures, curriculum design, teacher training, examination boards and develop supportive policy frameworks to produce transformative leaders for the continent.
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Ramadhani Issa, Ramadhani, and Charles Raphael. "Trends in Programmes and Enrolment Patterns in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in East Africa." Mbeya University of Science and Technology Journal of Research and Development 6, no. 2 (2025): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.62277/mjrd2025v6i20001.
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East Africa recently has witnessed a substantial transformation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes and enrolment patterns across the region. This study explored the trends in developing programmes and enrolments in TVET across East Africa, specifically within the transportation, manufacturing, and renewable energy sectors. The study used a positivism research philosophy and a quantitative approach. Furthermore, the study used a descriptive research design from which data were collected from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania in 9 institutions among 17 regional flagship institutions, implementing the East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP). The data were collected through documentary review of enrolment databases of the surveyed TVET institutions. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics, especially cross-tabulation with frequencies and percentages. The findings reveal that the trends in enrolment varied from one institution to another and from one specific sector to another (from one specific programme to another). In the transportation sector, the National Institute of Transport in Tanzania reported steady growth in enrolments linked to government investments in infrastructure. Conversely, Kombocha TVET Polytechnic in Ethiopia noted a decline in enrolments despite expansion in its programmes. In the manufacturing sector, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology-Mwanza Campus developed programmes consistently, and the enrolment increased steadily. The renewable energy sector in Arusha Technical College experienced an increase in enrolments in long-term programmes. These findings carry several policy implications, such as harmonisation of TVET qualifications, alignment with labour market demands, strengthening industry partnerships, enhancing trainer competency and addressing implementation gaps noted from the submitted trends and patterns.
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Sollors, Werner. "“Obligations to Negroes who would be kin if they were not Negro”." Daedalus 140, no. 1 (2011): 142–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00066.
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The 1965/1966 Dcedalus issues on “The Negro American” reveal how America's racial future was imagined nearly a half-century ago, and at least one of the prophecies - voiced by sociologist Everett C. Hughes - found its fulfillment in an unexpected way at President Obama's inauguration in 2009. Short stories by Amina Gautier (“Been Meaning to Say” and “Pan is Dead”), Heidi Durrow's novel The Girl WhoFellfrom the Sky, plays by Thomas Bradshaw (Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed), and poems by Terrance Hayes (“For Brothers and the Dragon” and “The Avocado”) suggest trends in recent works by African American authors who began their publishing careers in the twenty-first century.
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Kiss, Lívia Benita. "Examination of the Role of Business Ethics with Google Trends." Business Ethics and Leadership 3, no. 3 (2019): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.3(3).25-38.2019.
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Ethics has existed in religion and philosophy for thousands of years and has been applied to business activities in the same way ethical values and norms have been applied to everyday life. This article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the study of business ethics as the form of applied ethics, which studies morals, ethical principles and problems in the business environment. The main goal of the study is to analyze business ethics from the point of view of integration of general morals and ethical norms to business, a combination of key signs of the right (good) or wrong behavior while doing business, determined on the basis of expected behavior approved by the society. The study of the role of business ethics in the corporate sector of the economy allowed to determine the most general principles of business ethics, namely awareness, caring, compliance, consideration, fairness, honesty, implementation, integrity, integration, loyalty, responsibility, and trustworthiness. The methodological basis of the research is analytical, statistical and comparative methods based on the use of Google Trends. In general, in Google Books, the use of the term business ethics shows an exponential trend. The findings show that the highest search frequency of business ethics is in the “all” category, after that in the “business and industry” category, then in the “science” category, finally in the “law and government” category. On average, the highest interest frequency was in 2004 in all examined categories. The author has proved that a third-degree polynomial downward trend can be fitted to each time series. The analysis of this concept on a geographical basis showed that the interest frequency of the principles of business ethics was most significant in South and Central East Africa, in South and Southeast Asia, over and above in the Caribbean. Keywords: business ethics, principles of business ethics, Google Trends, Google Books Ngram Viewer, time series analysis.
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Chuvieco, Emilio, Mario Burgui, and Isabel Gallego-Álvarez. "Impacts of Religious Beliefs on Environmental Indicators." Worldviews 20, no. 3 (2016): 251–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02003004.
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In this paper, the authors examine whether the more environmental-aggressive attitude of Christianity suggested by Lynn White (1967) could be sustained based on environmental indicators. The religious beliefs were obtained from a World database on religious practices, and the environmental variables from the Environmental Performance Index. Several controlling factors were generated to decouple the influence of religious traditions from other external variables, such as economic wealth or governance. The analysis was done worldwide at country level and for the African continent at provincial level. The results of our analysis demonstrate opposite trends to White’s conclusions, since Christian territories, both at country and provincial level, had better environmental indicators than territories dominated by other religious traditions, particularly compared to Muslim-dominant areas. Religious practice showed little explanatory power regarding environmental performance for all religions, although Christianity showed a higher positive correlation. Environmental performance of countries in all religious traditions showed a strong dependence from other controlling factors, particularly the human development index and the per capita income.
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Hwang, Ja Ok, Chae Young Lee, and Young Min Kim. "A study on analysis of research trends related to self-directed learning in Korean journals and improvement direction of International Educational Development Cooperation through Network Text Analysis." Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction 22, no. 22 (2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22251/jlcci.2022.22.22.1.
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Objectives In this study, we examined the research and application method for international education development cooperation of ‘self-directed learning’, which emerged as a new paradigm, considering the trend and demand of education. Therefore, related studies were collected, and the subjects of the studies were analyzed through the frequency of the topics and the correlation of research subjects.
 Methods Utilizing keyword ‘Self-directed’, ‘learning’, and ‘education’ with ‘detailed keyword search’, 160 KCI and KCI candidate journals published for last 10years are selected from RISS. A total of 640 keywords(4 from each article) from the selected 160 articles are analyzed utilizing Network Text Analysis.
 Results The main results derived accordingly are as follows. First, research on ‘Self-directed learning’ has continued albeit in small numbers. Second, the most appearing keyword was ‘College education’ both in frequency and centrality analysis. Third, the research has been applied and studied in various subjects. Forth, the cluster of subjects consists of five groups, and the connection between “college education” and “satisfaction” was relatively high.
 Conclusions Considering that the case of the SOLE of Sugata Mitra, an application of self-directed learning in the international community, conducting various studies in the expanded scope is meaningful. Since many studies have been mainly applied to university education setting in Korea, expanding the scope of studies to elementary education, secondary education, and lifelong education is able to deduce meaningful results. Second, it seems that self-directed learning can be applied in various integrated themes. Third, the contents and methods for teacher training in international education development cooperation need to be changed based on the philosophy of self-directed learning. Forth, it is suggested to devise a self-directed learning environment using mobile phones, considering the lack of “Broadband” and the dramatic growth in the supply and use of mobile phones in East African countries.
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Bankóová, Valéria. "The demographic determinants of Africa’s changing global position." Human Affairs 28, no. 4 (2018): 367–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0030.
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Abstract Demographic growth has in recent years been one of the determining characteristics of African development, and if projections are correct, the continent is set to become a population superpower. Its proportion of the world population, especially relative to the “old continent”, is increasing in a historically unprecedented manner, and its inhabitants are younger than ever. Although it is still difficult to assess whether this trend should be regarded as an opportunity or as a potential risk factor, it is already possible to discern the first definitive signs of how this evolving new distribution of demographic power is shifting Africa’s geopolitical and economic position in today’s polycentric world.
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Tachom Waffo, Boris, and Denis Hauw. "Within Satisfaction and Distress: Characterizing the First Cultural Transition of Young Talented Cameroonian Footballers." Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS) 10, no. 2 (2025): 023. https://doi.org/10.36950/2025.2ciss023.
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Introduction Migration is at the core of today’s professional sport. In football, since 2020, the rate of migrant players has increased by 20% (Poli et al., 2024). Transnational mobility has become a highly valuable commodity making transnational football career an inescapable pathway to either professional level or world-class level. Therefore, understanding cross-borders sports mobility processes is crucial for both players and stakeholders to effectively prepare and negotiate cultural transitions. Transnational career and pathway research in sport psychology is recent, limited, and suggests that maintaining a career as a migratory athlete remains challenging (Book et al., 2021; Ryba & et al., 2016; Storm et al., 2022). By identifying challenges faced, and psychological process involved, those researches highlight at what extent culture frames athletes’ sport and non-sport life experiences. However, no studies focused on neither the first cultural transition nor African athletes. From analysis of some previous studies, it seems that the experience of the first cultural transition shapes the willingness to initiate and the experience of the following migrations (Book et al., 2021; Ryba et al., 2016). On the other hand, African countries are deeply distinct from the most other countries worldwide regarding relevant features shaping people’s life experience: social security, gross domestic product, facilities, governance, and race. Furthermore, African countries are among those displaying the highest growth of expatriate footballers (Poli et al., 2024). Additionally, most of athletic migrations from Africa correspond to forced migration (United Nations Humans Rights Council, 2022), with the difference that it is triggered by a contract. Thus, what characterize the experience of the first cultural transition of African footballers? This study aimed to explore the athletic transnational career of Cameroonian footballers to characterize their experience of the first cultural transition. Methods This study is grounded within Critical Realism philosophy. It is useful to engage causal analysis and explanation of social problems and suggest practical recommendations for social change (Fletcher, 2017). Fourteen Cameroonian former footballers were purposively sampled following three criteria: having spent at least the formative years in Cameroon, did the first cultural transition for athletic career development, and having played professionally for a football club abroad at least one season. The participants’ position in the pitch included all the main positions acknowledged in football (goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and striker), and the country of their first cultural transition included the four continents (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Indonesia, Greece, Côte d’Ivoire, Paraguay, Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey). The semi-structured interviews based on life story and timeline interviews approaches were conducted, focusing on the participants’ experience of athletic transnational mobilities. This included a series of two interview sessions which lasted between 25 and 121 minutes. A total of 26 interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and reflexively thematically analyzed (Braun & Clarke, 2021). The study applied the four rigorous criteria to ensure qualitative study trustworthiness: credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). Results Nine themes (with their sub-themes) and their relationship were identified: Mental Health Issues (MHI), Context of athletic migration and seven challenges related to: Club and Contract, Team, Pitch, Way of life, Geography, Home country, and High Level Athlete status. MHI emerged as output of the context and challenges. MHI were characterized by players’ psychological distress and inability to understand that condition, and inability of the club leading team to understand what they were going through. The context of athletic migration was characterized by unplanned transition, adolescence, club’s facilities, and perception of moving abroad as having succeed their football career and life (satisfaction of achieving the dream). Challenges characterized tough situations players went through like contract disruption (club and team), broken In-group (team), injury (pitch), new mentality (way of life), winter (geography), long-distance relationship (home country), and experience of professionalism (High Level Athlete status). Discussion/Conclusion This research is the first to study the first cultural transition of athletes and to use a sample of athletes from Africa. The results depict main features characterizing the experience of the first athletic migration of young talented Cameroonian footballers. Applying critical realism philosophy, MHI was identified as the effect of the migration context and challenges faced. Those findings are consistent with the holistic developmental and ecological perspectives to talent development (Wylleman & Rosier, 2016), Intersectionality (Book et al., 2021), cultural sport psychology (Schinke & Hanrahan, 2009), and challenges underscored in previous transnational athletic career studies (Book et al., 2021; Ryba et al., 2016; Storm et al., 2022). Most importantly, this study highlights new result patterns enriching literature and providing critical information for African athletes and sport stakeholders: MHI (explicitly underscored), context of athletic migration, challenges related to winter, new mentality, broken In-group, etc. As successful talented footballers, they anticipated migration with professional contract as the guarantee of happiness. Actually, those young talented footballers navigated through the satisfaction of achieving professional level and distress. They struggled with psychological distress by shouldering the acculturation load and some professional football’s drifts in an environment which was not supportive enough, because it does not understand them. They could not seek for help because the lack means to understand their condition. Thus, this study is directly related to two Sustainable Development Goals (the third and eighth) by addressing mental health and decent work (United Nations Humans Rights Council, 2022). The results suggest several practical implications: informed football stakeholders’ action, strengthen coaches’ training, adjust sport psychologists’ intervention, and build solid preparatory foundation for next transnational African footballers. References Book, R. T., Jr., Henriksen, K., & Stambulova, N. (2021). Oatmeal is better than no meal: The career pathways of African American male professional athletes from underserved communities in the United States. 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Bolouki, Shawn, and Peter Lewa. "An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Top Leadership on Effectiveness of Privatization of Hospitals Through Mergers and Acquisitions in Kenya." Journal of Management and Strategy 9, no. 3 (2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jms.v9n3p54.
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This paper examines the privatization of hospitals through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using Kenya as the country of focus. It shows that M&A activities are increasing in Africa and there is a history of privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) / parastatals in Africa and Kenya in particular, which started in the 1990s. With the changing dynamics, increasing pressure to achieve universal health and looking at the history of mergers and acquisitions there is no doubt that this is going to become an important phenomenon in Kenya in the near future.Privatization of hospitals, including public and not-for-profit (NFP), has been popular since 1980s in North America (U.S., Canada) and Europe (Germany, England). Privatization and M&A activities of hospitals in other countries such as India, China, Saudi Arabia, Africa and Kenya have also increased. The reasons for these trends are industrialization of developing countries, changing lifestyles, aging populations, longer life expectancy, technological advancement, growth of the middle class, increase of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and inefficiency of public health systems. With the changing dynamics, it would appear there is a need for African countries to expand their private sectors, and privatization of healthcare is an attractive area for private equity firms and private hospital chains. Due to growth of the economy and the middle class, higher demand for healthcare services and particularly expansion of NHIF (National Hospital Insurance Fund) coverage, privatization of hospitals makes economic sense in Kenya.Knowledge of M&A among top leadership is crucial in determining its success or failure. Therefore, the literature review focused on property right, transaction cost, and institutional theory. Relevant M&A theories such as process, synergy, efficiency and disturbance theory were also reviewed.The research philosophy, methodology and design of this study was based on exploratory, post-positivism, deduction and utilized mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) with focus on verifying the hypothesis. The population of this research included Level 4, 5 and 6 hospitals in Kenya, totaling 268 hospitals with at least 50 beds; the sample size was 158 hospitals. Proportionate stratified random sampling methodology was used to determine the sample size of each hospital level (Level 4, 137 hospitals; Level 5, 14 hospitals; and Level 6, 7 hospitals).The hypothesis that there is no relationship between top leadership (X) and the effectiveness of privatization of hospitals (Y) through M&A was tested and there was a strong and positive relationship between the dependent and independent variables (r=0.821), and the regression model was found to be reliable. The null hypothesis was rejected because of the results of the T-test (β1=0.925, t=9.757, p<0.005).It is recommended that similar studies be conducted in East and South Africa to enable researchers to perform comparative analyses in order to improve the body of knowledge.
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Chepkwony, Kipkoech Mark. "The Philosophy of Dissimilation, Meaninglessness and Isolation in Theatre of the Absurd: Evidence from John Ruganda’s Two Plays." East African Journal of Education Studies 5, no. 1 (2022): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajes.5.1.563.
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Drama and theatrical performance remain one of the most effective ways through which life’s reality can be experienced, described, perceived and portrayed. Absurd drama has come to be seen as one of the most modern literary movements that have been adopted by African playwrights, Ruganda included. Based on a study of plays by Ugandan playwright John Ruganda, this paper discusses the philosophy of dissimilation, meaninglessness and isolation in theatre of the absurd. The study used Ruganda’s two plays, namely The Floods and Shreds of Tenderness. The various modes through which absurd drama appeal to the aesthetic sensibilities were examined. The study employed descriptive research and used purposive sampling. Data was analysed qualitatively by describing the findings of the study to arrive at inferences and conclusions. In Ruganda’s plays, the country is represented as being sick and in dire need of an urgent remedy but no one has the desire to bring in a solution to it. The sickness has not only affected the people as individuals but the nation as a whole. The playwright is by extension pointing to the cause of the sickness affecting the nation as being attributed to bad leadership. Using the lives of main characters, the playwright also demonstrates the senselessness of the human life and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought. The characters are portrayed as isolated and lonely individuals whose lives and fate area mere subject of time. The finding of the study is an important contribution to understanding drama and the changing trend in literary criticism in drama
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Ortiz, Luz, Héctor Tillerias, Christian Chimbo, and Veronica Toaza. "Impact on the video game industry during the COVID-19 pandemic." Athenea 1, no. 1 (2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.47460/athenea.v1i1.1.
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This work presents trends and comparisons that show a change in the consumption and production of video games in times of confinement due to the health emergency. The video game industry has modified its philosophy and adapted its products to the new requirements and trends of consumers who see in this activity a way to appease the psychological and social impact due to quarantine and isolation. There is evidence of a 65% increase in the use of online video games, which has broken a world record. Products that have new aspects and considerations never before proposed by this great industry have been developed and offered, such as thematic games related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Keywords: Video game, pandemic, online games, confinement.
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