The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics
Author: Nimi Wariboko
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030364909

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.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
Author: Jamaine M. Abidogun
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303038277X

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy
Author: Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137592915

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
Author: Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1041
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030555178

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
Author: Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030895009

The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their sustainability and relevance for the future, this volume is an essential resource for knowledge and understanding of African Traditional religions in the global space of religious traditions.

The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order

The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order
Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1116
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030774813

This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people, the book underlines the centrality of the African continent to global knowledge production, the global economy, global security, and global creativity. Bringing together perspectives from top Africa scholars, it actively dispels myths of the continent as just a passive recipient of external influences, presenting instead an image of an active global agent that astutely projects soft power. Unlike previous handbooks, this book offers an eclectic mix of historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a more holistic view of the many aspects of Africa’s relations with the world.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy

The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1099
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030389227

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and complex. Chapters in the book discuss how domestic and international political economic forces have shaped and continue to shape development outcomes on the continent. Contributors also provoke new thinking on theories and policies to better position the continent’s economy to be a critical global force. The uniqueness of the handbook lies in linking theory and praxis with the past, future, and various dimensions of the political economy of Africa.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship

The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship
Author: Oluwaseun Kolade
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 303075894X

This comprehensive handbook offers a state-of-the-art guide to new frontiers of African entrepreneurship. Written from a Pan-African perspective by a cast of international authors, the book addresses the rapid modernisation and evolution of African entrepreneurship and business practices. It maps new developments in entrepreneurial ecosystems, technology and digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in conflict zones, and gender and diversity issues. It proposes new models for entrepreneurial financing and explores the contrast between entrepreneurship in high-technology urban centers with peripheral rural districts and conflict zones. Bringing together empirical insights and case studies from countries across Africa, the Handbook illuminates regional and contextual differences and shares theoretical and practical insights which inform policy and practice. It is an ideal guide for researchers and students working on international business, entrepreneurship and emerging economies. It will also inform policymakers in developing context-informed entrepreneurial policies and initiatives in Africa.

The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Author: Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319704435

This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides empirical evidence as to why some of the methods conceptualised in Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the discipline on the continent.