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DR Elvis Imafidon's Outputs (24)

Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project (2024)
Journal Article
Reimer-Kirkham, S., Astle, B., Ero, I., Beaman, L., Ibhawoh, B., Imafidon, E., Sawatzky, R., Tettey, W., Buyco, M., & Strobell, E. (2024). Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project. International Journal for Equity in Health, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02064-5

Background: Persons with albinism face challenges to their wellbeing, safety, and security, ranging from vision impairment and skin cancer to stigma and discrimination. In some regions, they also face human rights atrocities including mutilation and... Read More about Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project.

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.

Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (2022)
Book
Imafidon, E., & Baker, C. (Eds.). (2022). Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17858

The challenges currently faced by people with albinism in many African countries are increasingly becoming a focus of African writers, storytellers, artists and filmmakers across the continent. At the same time, a growing number of advocates and acti... Read More about Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change.

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

Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
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Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Honolulu, HI

This special issue of the Review of Disability Studies consists of original articles and creative works that take seriously and explore some important aspects of sub-Saharan African perspectives on disability and their impact on understandings of dis... Read More about Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Ibhawoh, B., Reimer-Kirkham, S., Ero, I., Mgijima-Konopi, I., Beaman, L., Senkoro, P., Astle, B., Strobell, E., & Imafidon, E. (2022). Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 14(3), 838-858. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac038

Abstract Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to sp... Read More about Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa.

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference (2022)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2022). Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference. Nursing Philosophy, 23(3), Article e12393. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12393

In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or... Read More about Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference.

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.