
Lifemaking
Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.
Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a counterpoint to the necropolitics that dominates African political practice. For practitioners and analysts for whom Africans and their polities are caught in the TINA (There Is No Alternative) syndrome, this book offers inspiration for an alternative to the current necropolitics. Because the book's thesis is an unreserved celebration of lifemaking, it identifies collective human flourishing as essential to politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Lifemaking: Poetics of Politics in Traditional Africa
- 2 The Philosophy of King Amakiri: Kalabari as a Political Narrative
- 3 Amatemeso, Otherness, and Violence
- 4 Chiefs: Subjects to Freedom
- 5 Sediments of Life: On Poiesis of Social Immortality
- 6 The Excellent Self: Existential End Goal of Lifemaking
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover