Lifemaking - Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nimi Wariboko, Wariboko Nimi
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781438498218
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9821-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, HISTORY / Africa / West, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, African History, Religion and Politics, West Africa, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal