African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism

Ephraim-Stephen Essien; Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere

doi:10.5771/9781666931112

Summary

This book creates (on the one hand) and explores (on the other hand) philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African countries. As an academic discipline focused on thought informed by indigenous moral values among Black peoples in the sub-Saharan region, African political philosophy involves philosophizing normatively about government by traditional Black African people with the aim of advancing a better African society. African political philosophy does not mean that its themes, views, concepts, and approaches are exclusively African. It also does not mean that only thinkers in Africa could hold these concepts, nor does it mean that all African thinkers hold the same views. “African” is used geographically in African political philosophy to demarcate certain perspectives that are unique to sub-Saharan African thought and practice that tend not to be the case elsewhere. An African political and economic philosophy should address the origin and method of political power, the guarantee of human and civil liberties, and how economic goods are generated and distributed in African societies. Africapitalism, as a new economic philosophy, obviates the inadequacies in Afrisocialism and offers an option for an African economic philosophy. Edited by Ephraim-Stephen Essien and Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere, the contributors to African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism: Concepts for African Leadership ask the question: can a neo-Afrisocialism offer anything good for the Africa?

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66693-110-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3111-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. What Is Africapitalism? No access
  3. Background No access
  4. History of African Political Philosophy No access
  5. Igbo Business Philosophy No access
  6. References No access
2. 1. Africapitalism and the Sage No access
  2. References No access
3. 1. Conceptualizing Self-reliancism No access
  2. The Theoretical Foundation of Self-reliance No access
  3. On Africapitalism No access
  4. Previous Economic Philosophies in Africa No access
  5. Self-reliancism and Africapitalism as Economic Ideologies of Development No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Chiefless African States and Africapitalism No access
  2. Modern Africa and Underdevelopment No access
  3. Universalization of Africapitalism and African Development No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Africapitalism and Its Principles No access
  2. An Overview of the Resource Curse in Nigeria No access
  3. Nigeria’s Compounded Resource Curse No access
  4. The Moral Implications for the Private Sector No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Critical Viewpoint of the Afrocentric Movement No access
  2. The Ascribed Notion of ISI No access
  3. Benefits of ISI for Africa’s Growth and Economic Prosperity No access
  4. Conclusion and Afrocentric Policy Prescription No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Constitution and Constitutionalism No access
  2. Constitutionalism in Postcolonial Africa No access
  3. Consequences for Development in the Continent No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. What Is Development? No access
  2. An Interpretation of the African Value of Communion No access
  3. 1. Too Little Spirituality? No access
    2. Too Much Science? No access
    3. Too Much Materialism? No access
    4. Too Little Locality? No access
    5. Too Much Progress? No access
    6. Is It True That, for Indigenous African values, the Concept of Linearity (or Progress) Is Out of Place? No access
  4. 1. Too Anthropocentric No access
    2. Too Individualistic No access
    3. Too Technocratic No access
  5. Conclusion: Toward a Relational Concept of Progress No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Theoretical Framework and Contextualization No access
  2. Basis of BCP No access
  3. BCP as Politics of Responsibility for Sustainable African Development No access
  4. Pragmatic Recognition of Africapitalism as a BCP No access
  5. Evaluative Conclusion No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Justification No access
  2. Woes of Colonialism and Postindependence Politics and the Calls for Indigeneity No access
  3. Aspects of Indigenous Akan Politics and Political Economy No access
  4. Theoretical Framework and Its Application No access
  5. 1. Indigenous Systems of Politics and Economics for Democracy and Well-Being of Individuals No access
    2. Communalism and Indigenous Political and Economic Philosophies No access
    3. The Misapplication of Communalism for African Socialism No access
  6. (Mis)Application of Communalism: Any Way Forward for Africapitalism? No access
  7. Conclusion and the Way Forward for African Politics and Economies No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Leadership: Notion, Nigeria’s Experience, and Challenges No access
  2. Ubuntu Philosophy: Notion and Exploration No access
  3. Africapitalism: Notions and Principles No access
  4. Ubuntu Philosophy and Africapitalism: Implications for Leadership in Africa No access
  5. Conclusion: Ubuntu and Africapitalism as Models of Leadership in Africa No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. The Case of Azania (A Hypothetical African State) No access
  2. Racial and Ethnic Disparities and the Problem of Marginalization No access
  3. Racial and Ethnic Quotas No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Political Conception of Power No access
  2. The Antebellum Period of the Nigerian Civil War No access
  3. The Failure of Power No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Bibliography No access
Conclusion No access Pages 209 - 210
Index No access Pages 211 - 212
About the Contributors No access Pages 213 - 214