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This document discusses required readings and themes for a discussion on Africa and the disciplines. It addresses how anthropology, philosophy, and scholarship have been impacted by African studies. Major points discussed include how Africa advanced anthropology by being where humans evolved, how African-American relations impacted American philosophy, and the need to reconceptualize the African diaspora to further scholarship through new analytical lenses beyond just slavery.
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culty of ethics in African Business today. For several
years now Transparency International has placed
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draws from this assessment is that either African
culture has no regard or concern for ethics, or that
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ethical and the moral in contemporary African
society. This latter has been the most accepted the-
ory which, further more, suggests that this loss of the
ethical is particularly noticeable within the family
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African scholars view this decline as underlying
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in moral consciousness, especially with relation to
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that occurred in Africa through the contact of
African cultures with external cultures, principally
the European and Asia over the last 150 years
(Kigongo, 1992). The result of that transformation,
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people to a state of poverty because there was no
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undergraduate studies at the University of Nairobi before
moving on to the University of Navarre for her MA degree.
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ABSTRACT. This paper starts off from what seems to be
a difficulty of ethics in African Business today. For several
years now Transparency International has placed some
African countries high on its list of most corrupt countries
of the world. The conclusion one draws from this
assessment is that either African culture has no regard or
concern for ethics, or that there has been a gradual loss of
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African society. Equally problematic is the teaching and
promotion of Business ethics in organizations. Western
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Traditional African business and ethical
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This paper starts off from what seems to be a diffi-
culty of ethics in African Business today. For several
years now Transparency International has placed
some African countries high on its list of most cor-
rupt countries of the world. The conclusion one
draws from this assessment is that either African
culture has no regard or concern for ethics, or that
there has been a gradual loss of the concept of the
ethical and the moral in contemporary African
society. This latter has been the most accepted the-
ory which, further more, suggests that this loss of the
ethical is particularly noticeable within the family
and in the exercise of public office (Dalfovo, 1992).
African scholars view this decline as underlying
most of the contemporary problems of the conti-
nent. Efforts to explain the root cause of this decline
in moral consciousness, especially with relation to
economic matters, have been abundant. Some the-
orists point to the process of social transformation
that occurred in Africa through the contact of
African cultures with external cultures, principally
the European and Asia over the last 150 years
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they argue, automatically relegated the African
people to a state of poverty because there was no
Christine Wanjiru Gichure, born in Limuru, Kenya did her
undergraduate studies at the University of Nairobi before
moving on to the University of Navarre for her MA degree.
After several years teaching history and social ethics at sec-
ondary school Gichure embarked on her doctoral degree work
obtaining her Ph ...
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Discussion 2
- 1. Week 2 Discussion Africa & The Disciplines
- 2. Required Readings • The contributions of research in Africa to the social sciences and humanities • Changing perspectives on a changing Africa: the work of anthropology • The impact of African studies on philosophy • African histories and the dissolution of world history • African studies and universities since independence: the challenges of epistemic and institutional decolonization
- 3. Themes Major themes identified in the response paper Anthropology Philosophy Scholarship
- 4. Anthropology • The monumental impact Africa had on the advancement of anthropology • Africa is widely regarded as the premier location where humans originally evolved • Knowledge from Africa is equally as significant and persuasive as knowledge from Europe • The general framework of historical awareness in anthropology has experienced considerable metamorphoses
- 5. Philosophy The African-American relationship impacted the American culture significantly. For this reason, addressing questions that arise obviously for philosophy in Africa obliges one to address questions that are centrally philosophical in the American tradition
- 6. Scholarship academic study or achievement, learning at a higher level • The marginalization or elimination of African historical narratives • History indicates that one cannot understand concepts as complex as the idioms of power without studying their variation in space and their history in time • Reconceptualization of the African diaspora is important. In order to advance the scholarship of the subject opening new analytical lenses that focus on post-slavery African diasporas are important
- 7. Response Paper #1 Tuesday, September 7th