What Is Ailing Africa? — Practical Philosophy in Reinventing Africa

Stephen Onyango Ouma is a Kenyan philosopher and author. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief and publications manager at Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), where he also serves as a lecturer. He is also a lecturer at Marist International University College. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and is currently in his final year as a doctoral student. His scholarship focuses on the philosophical interpretation of diverse cultural phenomena in Africa and beyond with his main area of specialization being African Studies.

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Acknowledgements

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1 The Social Construct

  Introduction

 1 An Overview of the Invention

 2 The Social Construct: How It Started

 3 Social Construct Defined

 4 The Western Social Construct Discourses

 5 The Objectives of Western Social Construct

 6 The Roots of Racial Discourses

 7 The Impact of Western Social Construct: the Root Cause of Cultural Intoxication in Africa

  7.1 The Western Social Construct and the African Worldview: Culture and Modernization

  7.2 Traditional Understanding of Ultimate Reality

 8 Decolonizing the Western Construct

  8.1 Need for Conscious-Minded Leaders

 9 Decolonization Attempts and Its Failure in Africa

  9.1 The Vision of the African Founding Fathers

 10 What Should We Do? the Desire for Antithesis Discourses



2 Decolonizing Colonial Education

  Introduction

 1 Education: Self-Autonomy

 2 History and Time

  2.1 Why the Revitalization of the African Past?

 3 Autonomy and Freedom

 4 Literature in Colonial Africa

 5 Africanizing the Colonial Education Systems: the Missing Link

 6 The Traditional African Education Systems: a Philosophical Reflection

 7 The Role of Traditional African Approaches of Education in the Modern World

  7.1 Diversity in Commonality

 8 African Indigenous Education: a Lived Education

  8.1 Traditional Understandings of Morality

  8.2 Morality, Religion and Corruption in Africa

 9 African Indigenous Educational System: a Holistic System

  9.1 Decolonizing the African mind: the Role of African Philosophy in Education

 10 African Traditional Education and Development: Education in an African Context

  10.1 Indigenous Knowledge for Development: Opportunities and Challenges

 11 Prospect of Integrating AIKS into the Teaching of Sciences in Africa

  11.1 African Traditional Education: Gender in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

 12 An African Understanding of Education

  12.1 Knowledge in Modern Africa

 13 Miseducation: Objectives and Results



3 The European Social Constructs and Development in Africa

  Introduction

 1 The African Paradox

 2 Is Africa on the Move?



4 African Economic and Political Liberation Trajectory

  Introduction

 1 A Cultural View on African Development

  1.1 Reimagining Africa’s Economic Growth

  1.2 Abolition of Foreign Aid for Development Path in Africa

 2 The African Double Consciousness



5 Re-Inventing the Invented Africa

  Introduction

 1 Inventing a ‘Construct’: Rehabilitating the African Identity

 2 Need for a Healthy Inter-Continental Cooperation

 3 Changing Trends

 4 Africa Rising



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Index