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Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field (2022)
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Imafidon, E. Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field

This paper seeks to explore the nature and implication of African relational moral theory as captured in the Ubuntu concept for the humanitarian field, in general, and the humanitarian strand of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), in particular. Ubu... Read More about Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field.

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.

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.

Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania (2020)
Journal Article
Reimer-Kirkham, S., Astle, B., Ero, I., Imafidon, E., & Strobell, E. (2022). Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania. Foundations of Science, 27(2), 719-740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09701-0

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, mothers impacted by the genetic condition of albinism, whether as mothers of children with albinism or themselves with albinism, are disproportionately impacted by a constellation of health-related stigma, social... Read More about Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania.

Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured? (2018)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2018). Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured?. Synthesis philosophica, 33(1), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33110

In this essay, I examine the extent to which the concrete and lived experiences of, and understanding of the world by, African women in indigenous African spaces are seriously taken into consideration and put in focus in the last few decades of large... Read More about Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured?.

African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (2018)
Book
Imafidon, E. (2018). African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443787

Albinism is one of the foremost disability and public health issues in Africa today. It often makes headlines in local, national and international medias and forms the basis for intense advocacy at all levels. This is primarily due to the harmful rep... Read More about African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race.

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.

Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent (2017)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2017). Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics: Philosophy of Medical Research and Practice, 38(2), 163-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-017-9403-2

Albinism is a global public health issue but it assumes a peculiar nature in the African continent due, in part, to the social stigma faced by persons with albinism (PWAs) in Africa. I argue that there are two essential reasons for this precarious si... Read More about Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent.