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Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy (2023)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2023). Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy. In E. Imafidon, M. Tshivhase, & B. Freter (Eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy (1-17). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77898-9_22-1

The chapter critically examines the fundamental and all-embracing philosophy of sub-Saharan African peoples, Afro-communitarianism or African communitarian philosophy. The chapter shows that recent theoretical scholarship on African communitarian phi... Read More about Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy.

Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition (2023)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2023). Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition. In P. Ikhane, & I. Ukpokolo (Eds.), African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge (48-59). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182320-5

How is knowledge acquired, stored and retrieved in African places? What is the cognitive process of acquiring, learning and remembering knowledge claims about anything in African places? I proffer answers to these questions by exploring what I term c... Read More about Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition.

Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., & Baker, C. (2022). Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa. In E. Imafidon, & C. Baker (Eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (1-14). Peter Lang

Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., Iyare, A. E., & Abudu, K. U. (2022). Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions. In J. O. Chimakonam, E. Eiteyibo, & I. Odimegwu (Eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (281-300). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0_18

Ageing as a natural process leads one gradually to a life’s stage where one becomes frail and elderly. In this life’s stage, due primarily to the wearing out of the body system, a number of health-related challenges arise. Such may include weakening... Read More about Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions.

African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2022). African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient. In A. Agada (Ed.), Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy (175-187). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78897-1_11

This chapter affirms the importance of the ethno in African moral discourse with particular reference to bioethical discourse. It begins by showing that the deductions of moral theories – normative, meta or applied – from African thought are made p... Read More about African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient.

The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions (2021)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2021). The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions. In C. Botha (Ed.), African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics (23-36). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442962_004

The paper analyses the otherness of albinism in African cultures with specific focus on the perception of the albinotic body as disgust and as being incapable of beauty. I argue that the ontological and aesthetic representations of albinism in Africa... Read More about The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions.

Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions (2018)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2018). Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions. In J. O. Chimakonam, & L. de Toit (Eds.), African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (89-106). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351120104-7

Dying as a human event is directly experienced by the dying subject. But death – the state of being dead – is directly experienced and dealt with by the living particularly those closest to the one who had died. Such persons are often traumatised and... Read More about Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions.