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Moral Pedagogies for Africa: From Ethnic Enmity to Responsible Cohabitation book cover

1st Edition

Moral Pedagogies for Africa From Ethnic Enmity to Responsible Cohabitation

Edited By Theodros A. Teklu Copyright 2022
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume engages with issues of moral responsibility and multiethnic co-existence in the context of contemporary Africa. Post-colonial African states are by and large ethnically diverse. Constructively managing ethnic diversity, however, has always been a challenge to these states, which often fail to be democratic and all-inclusive. As a result, ethnic enmity and conflicts that obliterate... Read more

Introduction: Engaging the Society of Ethnic Enmity

Theodros A. Teklu

PART I Multiethnic Togetherness in Africa: Crises and Moral Signposts

1 Moral Responsibility of Storytelling in Multiethnic Ethiopia

Mohammed Girma

2 The Entrenchment of Ethnocentrism in Kenya’s Political Landscape and the Church’s Responses to It

David K. Tarus

3 The Moral Roots of Ethnic Conflicts in Nigeria

Sunday Bobai Agang

4 Ubuntu for Responsible Cohabitation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

Evelyn Mayanja & Odomaro Mubangizi

PART II Moral Visions of Responsible Cohabitation

5 One New Temple in Christ

Craig S. Keener & Médine Moussounga Keener

6 African Palaver as a Model of Multiethnic Recognition

Theodros A. Teklu

7 Social Identity Complexity and a Politics of Forgiveness among Black and White South Africans

Dion A. Forster

8 Theology and Necropolitics: A Brief Reflection

Elias Kifon Bongmba

Biography

Theodros A. Teklu is a lecturer in theology and ethics and serves as the Director of the Centre for Christianity and Society at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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