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4 results for “ethics”
Samuel A. Okonkwo, Thandiwe M. Dlamini
Academic collaboration is usually governed by rules of credit borrowed from the sciences. This paper asks what an ethics of collaboration grounded in Ubuntu, the southern African idea that a person is a person through other persons, would require of humanities…
Philosophy, Ethics and ReligionChukwudi E. Onu, Sarah L. Bennett
Chinua Achebe described his English as ‘a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings’. This review reads that claim as an ethics of translation and traces its influence on later Nigerian writer…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsEbuka Nnaji
Highlife songs often speak in the voice of an elder giving advice. This review surveys the advisory mode in Igbo highlife from the 1960s to the present, reading lyrics as moral philosophy set to music. It argues that the genre’s proverbs, warnings and blessing…
Humanities and Social SciencesNgozi P. Uche
Official archives of the Nigerian Civil War remain incomplete, and much of what is known survives in family memory. This article analyses thirty oral testimonies collected in Enugu and Anambra States to show how survivors narrate displacement, hunger and retur…
Humanities and Social Sciences