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The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Features a geographically and disciplinarily diverse contributor list

  • Provides a collection of discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices

  • Uses a combination of theory and applied cases

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Economy (Energies of Exchange, Market)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
    2. Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies

      • J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
      Pages 299-315
  2. Culture (Creativity, and Forms of Organizing Creativity, Muses)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 389-389
    2. Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa

      • Anthony Okeregbe
      Pages 391-408
    3. Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye II

      • George Kotei Neequaye
      Pages 423-435
    4. Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji

      • George Kotei Neequaye
      Pages 437-451
    5. Ritual Archives

      • Toyin Falola
      Pages 473-497
  3. Religion (Comprehensive Worldview)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 499-499
    2. The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Social Morality

      • Obaji Agbiji, Emem O. Agbiji
      Pages 501-523
    3. Religion and Social Justice in Africa

      • Patrick Kofi Amissah
      Pages 525-542
    4. African Environmental Ethics

      • Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
      Pages 569-588
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 623-634

About this book

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Nimi Wariboko

  • Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, USA

    Toyin Falola

About the editors

Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019).

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.


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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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