This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts. It investigates specific philosophical and ethical concepts that emerge from African indigenous religions and considers their potential for providing feminist imagination for social justice-oriented earth communities. The contributions examine African indigenous concepts such as Ubuntu, ancestorhood, trickster discourse, Mupo, Akwaaba, Tukumbeng, Eziko, storytelling, and Ngozi . They look to deconstruct oppressive social categories of gender, class, ethnicity, race, colonialism, heteronormativity, and anthropocentricism. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, philosophy, gender studies, and African studies.
Edited by:
Musa W. Dube,
Telesia K. Musili,
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 625g
ISBN: 9781032587264
ISBN 10: 1032587261
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Contributors Preface Chammah J. Kaunda Introduction: the philosophical and ethical ways of African women Telesia K. Musili Part I Gender, the living, the dead, and conceptual theories 1 Ancestorhood, gender, and justice-loving earth community Tshenolo Jennifer Madigele 2 Ngozi (the justice-seeking spirit) as a form of restorative justice among the Shona people of Zimbabwe: a critical analysis of Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro’s novel Muchadura (You shall confess), 1967 Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga and Patience Yeukai Museruka 3 Vavenda philosophy of mupo: incorporating aspects of aesthetics and Romanticism Yvonne Winfildah Takawira-Matwaya Part II Gender, philosophy, and ethics of hospitality 4 Ubuntu and gender: on building justice-loving communal spaces Excellent Chireshe 5 In the akwaaba space: gender and religion in the welcome space Rev. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Part III Gender, ethics, and philosophies of resistance 6 When the subaltern speaks: reading the Mmutle (Hare) way Musa W. Dube 7 Anowa: continuing our conversations for liberation Abena Kyere 8 Takumbeng embodied arts of resistance in Cameroon Alice Yahfeh-Deigh Part IV Gender, sage spaces, and ways of knowing and being 9 Eziko: storying space, gender, and knowledge construction Nobuntu Penxa-Matholeni and Musa W. Dube 10 Women and shrines in African indigenous religion: a case study of the Shona in Zimbabwe Silindiwe Zvingowanisei 11 Imbusa as a sacred space and the role of banachimbusa as spiritual leaders Lilian C. Siwila & Sylvia K. Mukuka Part V Gender, ethics, and African political philosophy 12 The Kgotla space: African political philosophy, gender, and community building in the public space Abel Tabalaka and Kenosi Molato 13 Gender (in)justice in the political philosophy of Julius Nyerere Dogara Ishaya Manomi 14 The Afrocentric-Womanist Paradigm Seyram B. Amenyedzi
Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Dube is also Professor Extraordinaire of the Institute of Gender Studies, UNISA. Telesia K. Musili is Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University College, Pomades, Winneba, Ghana. She is also Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel Int., La, Accra, Ghana.
