Outputs (2)

African Communitarian Philosophy of Personhood and Disability: The Asymmetry of Value and Power in Access to Healthcare (2021)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2021). African Communitarian Philosophy of Personhood and Disability: The Asymmetry of Value and Power in Access to Healthcare. International journal of critical diversity studies, 4(1), 46-57. https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.1.0046

In this essay, I explore the asymmetry of value and power inherent in African communitarian philosophy’s assumptions about personhood and the implications of these assumptions for disabled people’s access to healthcare in the CO... Read More about African Communitarian Philosophy of Personhood and Disability: The Asymmetry of Value and Power in Access to Healthcare.

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.