The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics

1. Introduction.- Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing.- 3. Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis.- 4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations).- 5. Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya.- 6. The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context.- 7. Personhood in Africa.- 8. African Communal Ethics.- 9. Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism.- 10. Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of Neighbourliness.- 11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah's Legacy for Ghana.- 12. Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa.- 13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare.- 14. State and Society: A Comparative Perspective.- 15. Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah.- 16. Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor.- 17. Political Ethics of Franz Fanon.- 18. Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies.- 19. Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours.- 20. The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa.- 21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State.- 22. Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa.- 23. Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.- 24. Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye .- 25. Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji.- 26. Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity.- 27. Ritual Archives .- 28. The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality.- 29. Religion and Social Justice in Africa.- 30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics.- 31. African Environmental Ethics.- 32. Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu's Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal.- 33. "Reminders of What Once Was": Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye .