African Perspectives

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives

on defining african philosophy: history, challenges, and perspectives

consequent upon .africans' denialfa rational men!ali!j f:y ear!j european anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists and religious scholars, through some so-called 'theories of the primitive people': ma,ry .african scholars ejpecial91 · in the jield ofphilosophy rose to the challenge of articulating a distinct philosopl?j for their people to combat their mental and intellectual...

Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives.

doi:10.2471/BLT.08.054726 In 2001, a school teacher in Gueckedou, on Guinea’s border with Liberia, saw rebel forces including child soldiers destroy his town. Reflecting a few years later on the childhood immunization programmes that are now well established in the region, he worried that they might be creating a new generation of children – strengthened, but more violent. The notion of strengt...

African Marriage Systems: Perspectives from Evolutionary Ecology

Leadership and organizational ethics: the three dimensional African perspectives

This paper addresses the past, present and future aspects of African leadership and organizational ethics that have, are and will be key for any organization to sustain its systems and structures. Organizational ethics revolves around written and/or unwritten guidelines, ethical values, principles, rules and standards, that are drawn from the harmonious coexistence with the biosphere and it is ...