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The debate on Afrocentrism and its place in the communication theorizing has not been settled. While few colonizing nations pursued a policy of assimilation of the colonized, language, and by extension culture is gained through habituation, there ought to have been a deliberate effort by the African intellectuals to propose other world views in addition to the Eurocentric view which had had already been codified. Afrocentricity, presented in the manner in which it has been so far appear to be rebellion against anything European. This should not be the case. In this article, I have established that there is a strong case to recognize that there are different worldviews which emanate from the diversity of human race and none is inferior or superior. The Afrocentricism paradigm is an invitation by and for scholars to begin to deconstruct cosmological, ontological, epistemological, axiological and aesthetic issues from an African orientation as opposed to seeing these issues in the Eurocentric manner in which they are packaged and presented to the academy. First, while agreeing Afrocentric paradigm is a metatheory and can be applied in any human inquiry, we are involved in from agriculture to mathematics as and when the paradigm gets fully developed, probably we need to rename it Afrological Theory to avoid the ‘centric’ tag which tend to be antagonistic or sees everything in binary opposition to that other. Secondly, in response to African-American unique position and experiences, I propose we isolate an African-American orientation or Afriamericentric tradition to capture their unique cosmological and epistemological views. Thirdly, since Ubuntu appear to cut across many African settings, it should be Africa’s contribution to humanity, and we should codify its tenets and develop into it into the Ubuntu theory or philosophy, an idea alluded to in Obonyo’s article or in the very least as an organizing framework from which many frames of Africa may be explored.
Ubuntu by zion margaret lubogo
UBUNTU THE MULTIFACETED AFRICAN PHILLOSOPHY BY ZION MARGARET LUBOGO ISRAEL YK LUBOGO AND JIREH ISAAC LUBOGO2023 •
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The Afrocentric Project: The Quest for Particularity and the Negation of ObjectivityIn the final analysis, Kwame Nkrumah advanced that pan-Africanism must be about the unity of African masses under socialist governments. However, the concept of pan-Africanism in recent times has been misconstrued in the most treacherous manner. On one hand, the concept has been reduced to a “dansiki-wearing” competition by a layer of cultural nationalists; and on the other hand, it has been reduced to a “Black capitalism” bourgeois agenda. In spite of the apparent failures of capitalism, bourgeois economists like Nigeria’s Tony Elumelu, have been peddling a purported refined capitalist system under the ambiance of “Africapitalism”, as a stimulant for economic growth and development in Africa. Under the pretense of a “pan-African” agenda, bourgeois economists have been touting this neoliberal agenda across the continent and beyond, for self-serving purposes. The danger this portends is the detachment of pan-Africanism from its socialist agenda. Indeed, existing works on African pers...
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Ubuntu: The Political Paradigm Africa Should Endorse to Impact the Global Community2022 •
Africa with its vast human, cultural, and natural endowments is a continent that can actively influence itself and impact global trends. This position is reminiscent of Chamberlain’s retrospective appreciation of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial past. He argues that as a continent Africa is generally blessed with various individual and collective negro appearances, inventiveness, creativity, and concrete achievements that are capable of determining the development of human civilizations. However despite its rich indigenous traditions the continent has evidently remained a mere “consumer”, the “recipient” of Western theories, instead of being the teller of its story in its own “language”, “characters” and its own ideological “plot” to serve its identity, advance its agency and enhance its active presence in the world
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African Ethics through Ubuntu: A Postmodern Exposition2016 •
Introduction In this paper I do three things. First, I look at the nature, character and origin of hunhu/ubuntu as a key aspect of African ethics. By African ethics I mean the guiding injunctions as well as the norms and values peculiar to the communities of Africa south of the Sahara or Black Africa. Second, I define and characterize the concept of postmodernism focusing more on how it can be used to defend hunhu/ubuntu as a competing narrative or language game against its adulteration by modernists. Third, I explore the idea of the Common Moral Position (CMP) as the moral imperative of hunhu/ubuntu ethics. The CMP is a moral imperative because once it is implanted in the minds of persons; they no longer need rules that are in black and white to remind them that what they have done is right or wrong. Here I am not talking about a moral imperative in the sense it is understood by people like Immanuel Kant, where the imperative is categorical, I am talking about a moral imperative in...
Although 1994 is popularly represented as a year of major transition from an oppressive society to a democratic one in South African history, it did not mark the end of White Supremacy but instead its evolution from one constitutional form into another. This is because the so-called “right of conquest” remains affirmed in South Africa by the much celebrated constitution Act 108 of 1996. Since the early 90s, Ubuntu has been employed by the elite parties involved in the “negotiations” for the transition to the “new” South Africa, to justify the new society. This perverse employment of Ubuntu has been largely supported with the aid of sophistic academic posturing by the largely white academic establishment in South Africa and its network of international allies. Using African philosophical hermeneutics as a method, we will ground another interpretation of Ubuntu which stems from two interrelated roots. The first root is a firm understanding of and engagement with the Bantu languages and cultures which are its primordial philosophical basis (and thus crucial) on the one hand. The second is the study of the history of Ubuntu as lived and living philosophy responding to the challenge of the conquest of the indigenous people in the unjust wars of colonisation. Towards this end we will draw from the experience of Ubuntu-inspired movements in the history of the wars of resistance and the struggle for liberation ongoing since 1652.
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In this paper I unpack some nuanced aspects of cultural imperialism against the backdrop of Du Bois's analysis in The souls of black folk, dealing with the confrontation of African Americans or blacks by the other (the West). My aim is to gesture towards how certain ways of doing African philosophy can be considered culturally imperialistic. I seek to illustrate one culturally imperialistic way of doing African philosophy by discussing Thaddeus Metz's brilliant presentation of Ubuntu as an African moral theory. My motivation is to suggest along the way that his version of an Ubuntu-inspired moral theory seems to me a paradigmatic case of one such way.
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