What Is Ailing Africa? — Practical Philosophy in Reinventing Africa

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Not only does this book detail the colonial experiences in Africa through what the author refers to as a ‘social construct,’ it also vehemently criticises modern African governments for their current corruption and maintenance of the continent's situation. This book presents a two-pronged analysis of Africa’s predicament by looking at the duality of ethics and identity. It tries to trace the problematic aspects of westernization and modernization within the contexts of neo-colonialism and continued exploitation of Africa by external forces, as well as the complicity of Africans themselves.
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Stephen Onyango Ouma is a Kenyan philosopher and author. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief and publications manager at Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), where he also serves as a lecturer. He is also a lecturer at Marist International University College. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and is currently in his final year as a doctoral student. His scholarship focuses on the philosophical interpretation of diverse cultural phenomena in Africa and beyond with his main area of specialization being African Studies.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1 The Social Construct
  Introduction
 1 An Overview of the Invention
 2 The Social Construct: How It Started
 3 Social Construct Defined
 4 The Western Social Construct Discourses
 5 The Objectives of Western Social Construct
 6 The Roots of Racial Discourses
 7 The Impact of Western Social Construct: the Root Cause of Cultural Intoxication in Africa
  7.1 The Western Social Construct and the African Worldview: Culture and Modernization
  7.2 Traditional Understanding of Ultimate Reality
 8 Decolonizing the Western Construct
  8.1 Need for Conscious-Minded Leaders
 9 Decolonization Attempts and Its Failure in Africa
  9.1 The Vision of the African Founding Fathers
 10 What Should We Do? the Desire for Antithesis Discourses

2 Decolonizing Colonial Education
  Introduction
 1 Education: Self-Autonomy
 2 History and Time
  2.1 Why the Revitalization of the African Past?
 3 Autonomy and Freedom
 4 Literature in Colonial Africa
 5 Africanizing the Colonial Education Systems: the Missing Link
 6 The Traditional African Education Systems: a Philosophical Reflection
 7 The Role of Traditional African Approaches of Education in the Modern World
  7.1 Diversity in Commonality
 8 African Indigenous Education: a Lived Education
  8.1 Traditional Understandings of Morality
  8.2 Morality, Religion and Corruption in Africa
 9 African Indigenous Educational System: a Holistic System
  9.1 Decolonizing the African mind: the Role of African Philosophy in Education
 10 African Traditional Education and Development: Education in an African Context
  10.1 Indigenous Knowledge for Development: Opportunities and Challenges
 11 Prospect of Integrating AIKS into the Teaching of Sciences in Africa
  11.1 African Traditional Education: Gender in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
 12 An African Understanding of Education
  12.1 Knowledge in Modern Africa
 13 Miseducation: Objectives and Results

3 The European Social Constructs and Development in Africa
  Introduction
 1 The African Paradox
 2 Is Africa on the Move?

4 African Economic and Political Liberation Trajectory
  Introduction
 1 A Cultural View on African Development
  1.1 Reimagining Africa’s Economic Growth
  1.2 Abolition of Foreign Aid for Development Path in Africa
 2 The African Double Consciousness

5 Re-Inventing the Invented Africa
  Introduction
 1 Inventing a ‘Construct’: Rehabilitating the African Identity
 2 Need for a Healthy Inter-Continental Cooperation
 3 Changing Trends
 4 Africa Rising

References
Index
This volume is a valuable contribution for general readers of the growing literature on African philosophy, political science, ethics and international relations, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
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