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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"African Philosophy"”.
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
<p>The mental health challenges of members of the African diaspora have been a worldwide occurrence for centuries, initially beginning with the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite …
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Corporate Governance and Ubuntu: a South African and Namibian perspective
… guide corporate ethics, currently employed in African countries, are extensively driven by Western elements. Corporate governance practice in relation to the African philosophy of Ubuntu is under analysed. While Ubuntu has been studied comprehensively in a number of legal disciplines, it has …
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The role of philosophy of education in teacher education in South Africa
… over a period of years during which the South African education system has been influenced by radical political changes. The changes have, consequently, catalysed transformation of the lives and thought patterns of South Africans. These changes, therefore, assign to philosophy of education a …
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
… Yoruba traditionalist perspective. African philosophy and religion provides an ideological foundation and helps reveal the postcolonial and feminist theoretical framework that continues the academic debate. Framed by LeCompte and Schensul's notion that "ethnography emphasized …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… of Just War Theory (JWT) in moral and political philosophy. However, while a considerable number of philosophers have attempted to tackle the question of when, if ever, war is morally permissible, there seems to be a gap in the philosophical literature regarding the ethics of protest and …
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Innovation and Empowerment: Transformational Leadership and Ubuntu in the Youth Choir
… repertoire, and its ongoing outreach program, African Projects, which supports Kokopelli’s sister choirs in Namibia and South Africa. Ethnographic data collection included interviews with Leithead, five current choristers, four former choristers, and an African Projects exchange student; …
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Being and belonging among White English-speaking South Africans
White English-speaking South Africans - WESSAs - have been an understudied topic in general, and particularly within the discipline of anthropology. In this thesis, I take the reader on an autoethnographic journey of attempting to make sense of life in the suburbs of Cape Town, searching for the …
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Enforcement of refugee rights in South Africa through public interest litigation in the spirit of Ubuntu
… refugee rights through PIL aligns with the African philosophy of Ubuntu, emphasizing interconnectedness and humanity. The thesis contends that PIL, deeply rooted in Ubuntu, can serve as a catalyst for change, fostering a compassionate and inclusive approach to refugee protection in South …
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Re-imagining doctor-patient relationships in an African context: a transformative educational perspective
… of the clinical consultation. Using a South African clinical postgraduate Family Medicine training programme as a case study, this project answered two central research questions: (i) How do students learn to navigate relationships with patients in this training programme? And (ii) Can we …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… (5-6), tension between Roman religion and Greek philosophy (7), and the setting forth of Cicero's code of religious law (8), the code covers whom to worship (9), the power of Cicero's own priesthood (10), religion and political unity (11), social justice and religious rites (12), Cicero's …
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The Jurisprudence of Nelson Mandela: A Testament to Dignity
… of Mandela’s education in the Anglo-European philosophy of law and his upbringing in the African philosophy of ubuntu was an abiding sense of the interrelationship between law and morality, between justice and the rule of law, and the role of justice as that singular socio-legal imperative …
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A Bioethical Paradigm for Enhanced, Post or Transhumans in Medicine and Biological Research
… from Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and African philosophy. I posit that two other principles are needed: Particularity and Intrinsic Personhood.</p>
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The place of African Renaissance in the South African education
This research focused on describing "The Place of African Renaissance in the South African Education". The motivating factor is how African cultures can be restored through education. The research is intended to explore how the present education system can direct African education when faced with …
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Communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) through social networks as a new avenue for reputation management
… This was achieved by exploring how two South African financial institutions, FNB and Capitec, communicated their CSR initiatives to stakeholders on platforms such as their annual integrated reports, websites, and two SNSs, Facebook and Twitter. This research was a phenomenological, exploratory …
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Practice in theory, and the theory of practice: Examining the place of climate and modernity in postcolonial architectural mediation in Ghana since the 1940s
… Cultural Policy of Ghana (2004). In the larger African context, the Contemporary African Philosophy (CAP) expresses similar sentiments. The boundaries of mediation, however, depends on influences sketched by several factors including naturally occurring geographies such as the climate, and the …
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Human Development as Integral Development: The Social Teaching of the Church in an African Context
… It proposes a cross-cultural encounter between African socialism and Western liberalism. This chapter concludes with other propositions for a mutual complementation or reciprocal enrichment between the African Weltanschauung and Western thought, for example, in the interdisciplinary field of …
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Developing a Principles-Based Framework to Link the Governance of Genomics Research and Biobanking in Africa to Global Health Justice
… are also concerns around the exploitation of African researchers and study populations, mainly hinged on historical experiences in global health research, what has been termed scientific imperialism or “extractive” research. It is therefore not surprising that the rise in genomics research and …
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Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics
… is a worldview and a way of life shared by most Africans south of Sahara. Basically Ubuntu underlines the often unrecognized role of relatedness and dependence of human individuality to other humans and the cosmos. The importance of relatedness to humanity is summarized by the two maxims of …
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ENHANCING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOR MARGINALISED GIRLS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES IN AN ACCELERATED EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN GHANA
… To address this gap, this study integrates the philosophy of the Akan people of Ghana—reflected in their collective worldview, beliefs, values, and intellectual traditions— into the study’s theoretical framework. This integration enables the use of indigenous Akan knowledge, embodied in the …