Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Translators of the Bible into Igbo have had to choose words for God, spirit and sin from a religious vocabulary with its own history. This study compares key terms across three Igbo Bible translations and shows how each choice negotiates between indigenous religious meaning and missionary theology. It concludes that these terms have reshaped both Igbo Christianity and the Igbo language.

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 scholars. It argues for practices of shared authorship, mentoring and citation that recognise intellectual work as communal without erasing individual contribution.