Rethinking Research Ethics for Cultural Relevance in Africa

Ike Iyioke

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Pages:: 11–39

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004697676_003

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This chapter claims that research ethics in Africa must be ‘home-grown’ and should speak to local cultural needs of the people. While being mindful of the standards that meet international orthodoxy, we must however advocate for a culturally sensitive research integrity protocol that integrates standard research ethics as well as maintain the African communal mantra. As Metz (2020) affirms, Indigenous African values are characteristically communitarian. This is to say that African values tend to prescribe the protection and promotion of harmony and cohesion through consensus building, and interdependence within the family, community, clan, culture, or nation. Even though, according to Metz (2020), “philosophers disagree about whether this normative focus is good for its own sake …, or valuable merely as a means towards something else,” Africa’s communal character is undeniable. It is this understanding that encourages the establishment and advancement of an authentic framework of ethical principles that better address the cultural needs of Africans as well as local researchers (and anyone coming to conduct research in Africa). Also, researchers operating within this framework would have the added advantage of exploring interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and community-based participatory research.

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An African Research Ethics Reader

From the Ground Up

Series: Africana Philosophy, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004697676

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 May 2024

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- African Studies
  - Sociology & Anthropology
- Philosophy
  - Bioethics / Ethics of Medicine

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