African Politics and Ethics: Exploring New Dimensions

✍ Scribed by Munyaradzi Felix Murove

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics. Arguing that African ethics is integral to African post-colonial political contentious discourse, Murove invites the reader to reflect on various problematic political issues in post-colonial Africa and how African ethics has been applied in these situations. Starting with a succinct discussion of the scope of African ethics, he discusses how African ethical values have been applied by post-colonial politicians in the reconstruction of their societies. Further, Murove looks critically at the issue of African poverty and how the ethic of regional integration and economic cooperation among post-colonial African nation-states has been instrumental to efforts aimed at overcoming the scourge of poverty. The main question this book seeks to answer is: Are African traditional ethical values a panacea to modern African political problems?

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Introduction (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 1-6
African Ethics in a Nutshell (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 7-30
Ethical Politics in the Context of African Traditional Religion (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 31-51
African Ethics and the Post-colonial Politics of Tradition (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 53-82
Politics of Tradition and African Identity (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 83-101
African Traditional Humanism and the Ethic of Collectivism (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 103-114
Regional Integration and the Ethic of Co-operation in Post-colonial Africa (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 115-138
Traditional African Resources for Ethical Leadership (Munyaradzi Felix Murove)....Pages 139-165
Back Matter ....Pages 167-173

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Philosophy, general; Political Philosophy; African Politics; Ethics; Comparative Religion