This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa's ethical life and thought.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction Nimi Wariboko and Toyin Falola Family and Community (Eros as in belonging, togetherness) 2. Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing Victor Ojakorotu and Nelson Goldpin Obah-Akpowoghaha Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis Olayinka Oyeleye 4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations) Samson O. Ijaola Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya Damaris Parsitau The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context David Nderitu Personhood in Africa Kotei Neequaye African Communal Ethics Polycarp Ikuenobe Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism Nimi Wariboko Polity (violence, power, figures) Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness Ronald Olufemi Badru 11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah's Legacy for Ghana. Ebenezer Obiri Addo Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa Olajumoke Verissimo 13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare Georgette I. Mulunda Ledgister State and Society: A Comparative Perspective Olufemi Vaughan Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah Ebenezer Obiri Addo Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor Aliou Cisse Niang Political Ethics of Franz Fanon Chika Mba Economy (energies of exchange, market) Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours Bola Dauda The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa Sunday Dada 21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State Saheedat Adetayo Culture (creativity, and forms of organizing creativity, muses) Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa Anthony Okeregbe Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Sanya Osha Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye Kotei Neequaye Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji Kotei Neequaye Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity Adeshina Afolayan Ritual Archives Toyin Falola Religion (comprehensive worldview) The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality Obaji M. Agbiji and Emem Agbiji Religion and Social Justice in Africa Patrick Kofi Amissah 30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics Abimbola Adunni Adelakun African Environmental Ethics Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu's Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal Sheila A. Otieno "Reminders of What Once Was": Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye Oluwatomisin Oredein