By Emmanuel OfuasiaPhilosophy Department,National Open University of Nigeria, FCT, Abuja. Growing up in Lagos during my primary school days, I was very familiar with a passage in one of the Macmillan series on the English Language for studies at the primary level. The opening line of one of the passages
(dedicated to the girl-child in Africa) By Jonathan O. Chimakonam The South African Government declared August as women’s month in honour of over 20,000 women who “marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women”. It was a protest against abuse
By Chukwueloka Uduagwu To mark the 2020 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Celebration, I interviewed one of the leading African Philosophers of this century, JO Chimakonam of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. CU: The Third Thursday of November every year is set aside by UNESCO as World Philosophy Day. What is
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of one of the greats and pioneers in African Philosophy, Rev Canon Prof John Mbiti, whose death occurred on Sunday, October 6 2019. He was 87. Prof Mbiti’s influence in African Philosophy cannot be overstated. Born in Kenya, Mbiti obtained his
By Jonathan Chimakonam Eburu ozu onye ọzọ, ọdị ka ebu ukwu nkụ. (When ‘An-Other’ man’s corpse is carried shoulder-high by ragged job men, folks who live in luxury treat it like a mere bunch of firewood) —Igbo Proverb In his piece titled “Reconsider the decolonisation project” published in the Mail and Guardian of January
By Ben, Patrick Effiong Racism is utterly bad at all levels of moral theorizing. But, do you know what’s worse than racism itself? It is when those who are at the receiving end of racial discrimination fight against it on one hand, whilst at the same time working to sustain
By Emmanuel Ofuasia csp (ofuasia.emma@yahoo.com) Towards the end of November 2019, there was, what seemed to me, a needless hullabaloo, in the town of Nsukka, which houses the University of Nigeria (U.N.N). The reason is not unconnected to the “Conference on Witchcraft Practices,” an event initiated by the B.I.C. Ijiomah
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Statues look a lot like the past, which is why, whenever they are called into question, we turn to historians. The truth is that statues are a thing of the past only as long as they stand quietly in squares, as indifferent to us as
Put together by the Elements of the Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP)., Monday, June 15, 2020 Introduction When an individual contributes immensely to humanity or makes giant strides in his/her field of endeavour, those who are aware of those contributions are immediately met with sadness when the demise of such
1ST CSP EMERGING IDEAS ON CONVERSATIONAL THINKINGCONFERENCE (EICT) A Collaboration of The Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP)andThinking Africa (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria). Theme Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems Venue: Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria, South Africa Dates: August 26-28, 2020 Call for Abstracts: The Conversational School
