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2022 ◽  
pp. 002087282110563
Author(s):  
Robert K Chigangaidze

Ubuntu has launched the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, 2020–2030. This commentary stipulates how ubuntu can reinforce the Pachamama rights and its significance to social work practice. The African philosophy of ubuntu has potential to enhance the framework of understanding environmental rights from an eco-spiritual social work perspective and integrating the concepts of Pachamama rights. Clearly showing the link between Pachamama and ubuntu, this paper reminds social workers to advance the Rights of Nature.


2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlan Wen ◽  
Yuming Piao

African literature has played a major role in changing and shaping perceptions about African people and their way of life for the longest time. Unlike western cultures that are associated with advanced forms of writing, African literature is oral in nature, meaning it has to be recited and even performed. Although Africa has an old tribal culture, African philosophy is a new and strange idea among us. Although the problem of “universality” of African philosophy actually refers to the question of whether Africa has heckling of philosophy in the Western sense, obviously, the philosophy bred by Africa’s native culture must be acknowledged. Therefore, the human–computer interaction-oriented (HCI-oriented) method is proposed to appreciate African literature and African philosophy. To begin with, a physical object of tablet-aid is designed, and a depth camera is used to track the user’s hand and tablet-aid and then map them to the virtual scene, respectively. Then, a tactile redirection method is proposed to meet the user’s requirement of tactile consistency in head-mounted display virtual reality environment. Finally, electroencephalogram (EEG) emotion recognition, based on multiscale convolution kernel convolutional neural networks, is proposed to appreciate the reflection of African philosophy in African literature. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a strong immersion and a good interactive experience in navigation, selection, and manipulation. The proposed HCI method is not only easy to use, but also improves the interaction efficiency and accuracy during appreciation. In addition, the simulation of EEG emotion recognition reveals that the accuracy of emotion classification in 33-channel is 90.63%, almost close to the accuracy of the whole channel, and the proposed algorithm outperforms three baselines with respect to classification accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-30
Author(s):  
Wudson Guilherme de Oliveira

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar reflexões da Filosofia Africana (LOPES e SIMAS, 2020) acerca da ancestralidade, da história, cultura e linguística dos Povos Bantu (LWANGA-LUNYIIGO, e VANSINA, 2010) e a necessidade da implementação da Lei Federal 10.639/2003, bem como do compromisso para que se consolide a sua efetivação no Ensino de Filosofia (NOGUEIRA, 2011). Para o sucesso desta proposta, trabalhamos os valores morais e norteadores da Ética e as questões ligadas ao Respeito com uma turma do 1º Ano do Ensino Médio, composta por Alunados de jovens Pretos (as), Pardos (as) e Brancos (as) inseridos em uma instituição privada de educação na Baixada Fluminense, cidade metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, onde evidenciamos uma Pedagogia Antirracista (GOMES, 2017) e Decolonial (WALSH, 2013) a partir das pesquisas de Filósofos e Filosofas Afro-americanos, Africanos (ASANTE, 2009) e Afro-brasileiros, que produziram pensamentos filosóficos amparados na afroperspectiva. A metodologia utilizada foi gerada a partir de Oficinas, Rodas de Diálogos, Exposições de Livros de Literaturas Africanas, Indígenas e Afro-Brasileiros, apresentações sensibilizadoras de vídeos, textos e slides afrocentrados, onde serviram de subsídio para propor as discussões na Luta contra o Racismo. Graças a estas dinâmicas, foi possível descolonizar olhares eurocêntricos, racistas, xenofóbicos, machistas, homofóbicos entre outros, além de aumentar as estimas de Alunos Negros, proporcionar e construindo estratégias sólidas para a contribuição da valorização e a construção das identidades negras em prol da redução do Racismo.   This article aims to present reflections on African Philosophy (LOPES and SIMAS, 2020) about the ancestry, history, culture and linguistics of the Bantu People (LWANGA-LUNYIIGO, and VANSINA, 2010) and the need to implement the Federal Law 10.639/2003, as well as the commitment to consolidate its effectiveness in the Teaching of Philosophy (NOGUEIRA, 2011). For the success of this proposal, we work on the moral and guiding values ​​of Ethics and issues related to Respect with a class of the 1st Year of High School, made up of Black, Brown and White students. in a private educational institution in Baixada Fluminense, a metropolitan city of Rio de Janeiro, where we evidenced an Anti-racist (GOMES, 2017) and Decolonial (WALSH, 2013) Pedagogy from the research of African-American and African Philosophers (ASANTE, 2009) and Afro-Brazilians, who produced philosophical thoughts supported by an Afro-perspective. The methodology used was generated from Workshops, Rounds of Dialogs, Exhibitions of African, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Literature Books, sensitizing presentations of Afro-centered videos, texts and slides, which served as a subsidy to propose discussions in the Fight against Racism. Thanks to these dynamics, it was possible to decolonize Eurocentric, racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic views, among others, in addition to increasing the esteem of Black Students, providing and building solid strategies for the contribution of valorization and the construction of black identities in favor of reduction of Racism.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Omotade Adegbindin

As an exercise in African philosophy, this paper examines and demonstrates the limitations of the two popular extremes in disability studies, namely, the medical and social models of disability. While the former is essentialist in rendering disability as a fixed condition and as an individual problem to be confronted with medical intervention, the latter identifies it as a social problem that requires social intervention. The paper employs the methods of hermeneutics, critical and conceptual analyses to facilitate an understanding that, within the context of Yorùbá belief, disability goes beyond the realm of human beings and involves the active participation of Yorùbá deities, especially Òrìṣà-ńlá or Ọbàtálá. Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omotade Adegbindin

While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. This essay argues that the intransigent relationship between the modernists and the traditionalists persists because the two dominant schools have failed to recognize the need to furnish a paradigm of interaction between their projects. From the standpoint of lfa, therefore, this paper rejects the written-oral dichotomy that is central to both the modernist and the tradi­tionalist orientations, occasioned by their parochial and provincial conceptions of philosophy respectively. The paper shows how lfa as a complete philosophy puts a premium on the need to bring individual views in oral and written cul­tures together to enhance a wider human vision in matters bordering on the intellectual configuration of our human society.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

Are there universal principles, categories, or forms of reasoning that apply to all aspects of human experience—irrespective of culture and epoch? Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. Building on these and other works, this essay argues that: (i) incommensurability of “worldviews,” “perspectives,” “paradigms,” or “conceptual schemes” springs from deeper, more fundamental cognitive categories of logic that are coded into natural languages; and that (ii) consequently, as long as African reflective reasoning is expressed solely (or predominantly) in European languages, the authenticity of the “African” in African philosophy is questionable.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Segun Gbadegesin

Review of John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji's The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society: A Study in African Philosophy of Law. Lexington Books, 2016, 282 pages.


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