Ademola Kazeem Fayemi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4117307 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ademola Kazeem Fayemi |
| NOMBRES | Ademola Kazeem |
| APELLIDO | Fayemi |
| FIRMA | FAYEMI A K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lagos |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7589-8626 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics
Solidarity is one of the emerging values in global health ethics, and a few pieces of bioethics literature link it to decoloniality. However, conceptions of solidarity in global health ethics are influenced primarily by Western perspectives, thus suggesting the decolonial needs to include non-Western perspectives. This article explores a decolonial interpretation of solidarity to enrich our understanding of solidarity. It employs a palaver approa…
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy
The ongoing debate on how best to regulate international commercial surrogacy defies consensus, as the most cogent normative and jurisprudential grounds for and against non-altruistic surrogacy remain controversial. This paper contributes to the debate by focusing on social justice issues arising from transnational, moneymaking surrogacy, with a focus on the Global South. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives on balancing interests, ri…
African Sartorial Culture and the Question of Identity
This paper is a critical interrogation of the apparel culture as a marker of African identity in traditional and contemporary Africa. The article philosophically discusses the sartorial culture of sub-Saharan Africans in the light of its defining elements, identity, and non-verbal communicative proclivities. Focusing on the Yoruba and the Ashanti people, the author argues that African dress expresses some symbolic, linguistic, and sometimes hidde…
Transhumanism and African humanism
African humanism should be considered more in the theoretical discussion on transhumanism. Using an underexplored humanistic philosophy of Ubuntu , this article shows how the perspective from the global south provides guidelines for pursuing transhumanism without jeopardizing humanism. It argues that heuristics from African ( Ubuntu ) humanism can serve transhumanist goals. While transhumanism has attracted severe criticisms from bio‐conservative…
Is skin bleaching a moral wrong? An African bioethical perspective
A Critique of Thaddeus Metz's Modal Relational Account of Moral Status
This article is a critique of Thaddeus Metz’s modal relational approach to moral status in African ethics (AE). According to moral relationalism (MR), a being has moral status if it exhibits the capacity for communal relationship as either a subject or an object. While Metz defends a prima facie plausibility of MR as an African account of moral status, this article provides a fresh perspective to the debate on moral status in environmental and et…
Afro-communal virtue ethic as a foundation for environmental sustainability in Africa and beyond
This paper addresses the question: Can an Afro-communal virtue ethic provide a plausible foundation for environmental sustainability? Drawing on Thaddeus Metz’s perspective and contributions to the Afro-communal ethic tradition, this paper examines the extent to which his proposal provides plausible grounds for environmental sustainability. Metz, in several essays, advances the need for an ethic of communion, which rests on the ubuntu (humanness)…
Teaching ancient African philosophy
In this article, I critically examine the pedagogical problems in the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy in continental and diaspora Africa. I argue that the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy poses ab initio some peculiar problems arising from a number of factors: scepticism about the existence of such a classical philosophy; the problem of language and the controversy in the historiography of African philosophy. An…
Personhood in a transhumanist context
Personhood is an extensively discussed theme in contemporary African philosophy, which has taken metaphysical, epistemological and normative dimensions. In Western philosophical traditions, discourse on personhood is transmuting to debates on transhumanism. Missing in the African philosophical literature is consideration of transhumanism and an explication of the relationship between personhood and transhumanism. In this article, I critically exa…
Implications of Odera Oruka's ethics of consumerism for reducing globesity
In this paper, I advance Odera Oruka's insights on the ethics of consumerism in order to draw relevant implications of his thoughts on rethinking the problem of obesity. I argue that Oruka's ethics of consumerism and his right to human minimum theory entail some salient ideas that might serve as a better ethical model for reducing the global obesity prevalence. Though Oruka's African moral philosophy is yet to receive universal attention it argua…
Racial identity, aesthetic surgery and Yorùbá African Values
The question of racial identity in the process and outcome of aesthetic surgery is gaining increasing attention in bioethical discourse. This paper attempts an ethical examination of the racial identity issues involved in aesthetic surgery. Dominant moral values in Western culture are explored in the evaluation of aesthetic surgery. The paper argues that African values are yet to receive the universal attention they arguably deserve especially in…
A frican Bioethics vs. Healthcare Ethics in A frica
It is nearly two decades now since the publication of G odfrey T angwa's article, ‘Bioethics: A frican Perspective’, without a critical review. His article is important because sequel to its publication in Bioethics, the idea of ‘ A frican bioethics’ started gaining some attention in the international bioethics literature. This paper breaks this relative silence by critically examining T angwa's claim on the existence of A frican bioethics. Emplo…
African Environmental Ethics and the Poverty of Eco-Activism in Nigeria
Discourse on the possibility and necessity of an African environmental ethics is widespread in contemporary African studies, albeit with new dimensions and emphasis. With the growing work of such scholars as S. Ogungbemi, A. Fadahunsi, G. Tangwa, P. Ojomo, C.J. Ekwealo, and W. Kelbessa, among others exploring (in different ways) the thesis of indigenous African environmental values and principles which are considered sacrosanct in the restoration…
Africa Versus the West on Reparation
Economic hardship in Africa necessitates anew, an agitation and a reconsideration of the issue of reparation. Reparation has some shades of meaning. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines
Hermeneutics in African philosophy
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the hermeneutic in the ongoing discourse on methodology in African philosophy. The diverse understanding of hermeneutics is not only limited to Western philosophy; in the few decades of its history in African philosophy, hermeneutics has also assumed different meanings. This paper discusses not only the historical evolution and development of hermeneutists in the West, but also the African hermeneutists: Tse…
Africa Versus the West on Reparation
Economic hardship in Africa necessitates anew, an agitation and a reconsideration of the issue of reparation. Reparation has some shades of meaning. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines
Afro-communal virtue ethic as a foundation for environmental sustainability in Africa and beyond
This paper addresses the question: Can an Afro-communal virtue ethic provide a plausible foundation for environmental sustainability? Drawing on Thaddeus Metz’s perspective and contributions to the Afro-communal ethic tradition, this paper examines the extent to which his proposal provides plausible grounds for environmental sustainability. Metz, in several essays, advances the need for an ethic of communion, which rests on the ubuntu (humanness)…
Hermeneutics in African philosophy
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the hermeneutic in the ongoing discourse on methodology in African philosophy. The diverse understanding of hermeneutics is not only limited to Western philosophy; in the few decades of its history in African philosophy, hermeneutics has also assumed different meanings. This paper discusses not only the historical evolution and development of hermeneutists in the West, but also the African hermeneutists: Tse…
Africa Versus the West on Reparation
Economic hardship in Africa necessitates anew, an agitation and a reconsideration of the issue of reparation. Reparation has some shades of meaning. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines
A frican Bioethics vs. Healthcare Ethics in A frica
It is nearly two decades now since the publication of G odfrey T angwa's article, ‘Bioethics: A frican Perspective’, without a critical review. His article is important because sequel to its publication in Bioethics, the idea of ‘ A frican bioethics’ started gaining some attention in the international bioethics literature. This paper breaks this relative silence by critically examining T angwa's claim on the existence of A frican bioethics. Emplo…
African Environmental Ethics and the Poverty of Eco-Activism in Nigeria
Discourse on the possibility and necessity of an African environmental ethics is widespread in contemporary African studies, albeit with new dimensions and emphasis. With the growing work of such scholars as S. Ogungbemi, A. Fadahunsi, G. Tangwa, P. Ojomo, C.J. Ekwealo, and W. Kelbessa, among others exploring (in different ways) the thesis of indigenous African environmental values and principles which are considered sacrosanct in the restoration…
Personhood in a transhumanist context
Personhood is an extensively discussed theme in contemporary African philosophy, which has taken metaphysical, epistemological and normative dimensions. In Western philosophical traditions, discourse on personhood is transmuting to debates on transhumanism. Missing in the African philosophical literature is consideration of transhumanism and an explication of the relationship between personhood and transhumanism. In this article, I critically exa…
Implications of Odera Oruka's ethics of consumerism for reducing globesity
In this paper, I advance Odera Oruka's insights on the ethics of consumerism in order to draw relevant implications of his thoughts on rethinking the problem of obesity. I argue that Oruka's ethics of consumerism and his right to human minimum theory entail some salient ideas that might serve as a better ethical model for reducing the global obesity prevalence. Though Oruka's African moral philosophy is yet to receive universal attention it argua…
Racial identity, aesthetic surgery and Yorùbá African Values
The question of racial identity in the process and outcome of aesthetic surgery is gaining increasing attention in bioethical discourse. This paper attempts an ethical examination of the racial identity issues involved in aesthetic surgery. Dominant moral values in Western culture are explored in the evaluation of aesthetic surgery. The paper argues that African values are yet to receive the universal attention they arguably deserve especially in…
Afro-communal virtue ethic as a foundation for environmental sustainability in Africa and beyond
This paper addresses the question: Can an Afro-communal virtue ethic provide a plausible foundation for environmental sustainability? Drawing on Thaddeus Metz’s perspective and contributions to the Afro-communal ethic tradition, this paper examines the extent to which his proposal provides plausible grounds for environmental sustainability. Metz, in several essays, advances the need for an ethic of communion, which rests on the ubuntu (humanness)…
Teaching ancient African philosophy
In this article, I critically examine the pedagogical problems in the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy in continental and diaspora Africa. I argue that the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy poses ab initio some peculiar problems arising from a number of factors: scepticism about the existence of such a classical philosophy; the problem of language and the controversy in the historiography of African philosophy. An…
Is skin bleaching a moral wrong? An African bioethical perspective
A Critique of Thaddeus Metz's Modal Relational Account of Moral Status
This article is a critique of Thaddeus Metz’s modal relational approach to moral status in African ethics (AE). According to moral relationalism (MR), a being has moral status if it exhibits the capacity for communal relationship as either a subject or an object. While Metz defends a prima facie plausibility of MR as an African account of moral status, this article provides a fresh perspective to the debate on moral status in environmental and et…
African Sartorial Culture and the Question of Identity
This paper is a critical interrogation of the apparel culture as a marker of African identity in traditional and contemporary Africa. The article philosophically discusses the sartorial culture of sub-Saharan Africans in the light of its defining elements, identity, and non-verbal communicative proclivities. Focusing on the Yoruba and the Ashanti people, the author argues that African dress expresses some symbolic, linguistic, and sometimes hidde…
Transhumanism and African humanism
African humanism should be considered more in the theoretical discussion on transhumanism. Using an underexplored humanistic philosophy of Ubuntu , this article shows how the perspective from the global south provides guidelines for pursuing transhumanism without jeopardizing humanism. It argues that heuristics from African ( Ubuntu ) humanism can serve transhumanist goals. While transhumanism has attracted severe criticisms from bio‐conservative…
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy
The ongoing debate on how best to regulate international commercial surrogacy defies consensus, as the most cogent normative and jurisprudential grounds for and against non-altruistic surrogacy remain controversial. This paper contributes to the debate by focusing on social justice issues arising from transnational, moneymaking surrogacy, with a focus on the Global South. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives on balancing interests, ri…
Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics
Solidarity is one of the emerging values in global health ethics, and a few pieces of bioethics literature link it to decoloniality. However, conceptions of solidarity in global health ethics are influenced primarily by Western perspectives, thus suggesting the decolonial needs to include non-Western perspectives. This article explores a decolonial interpretation of solidarity to enrich our understanding of solidarity. It employs a palaver approa…
Sociology (15 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Environmental ethics (9 obras) · African cultural and philosophical studies (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Bioethics (5 obras) · African philosophy (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras)