Emmanuel Ofuasia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1055837 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Emmanuel Ofuasia |
| NOMBRES | Emmanuel |
| APELLIDO | Ofuasia |
| FIRMA | OFUASIA E |
| AFILIACIONES | National Open University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2028-6005 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Helen Verran and the Question of African Logic
Hitherto, the African intellect had been decimated by notable European scholars such as David Hume, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hegel, Lucien Levy-Bruhl to name a few. The common denominator among these male scholars is that the African intellect is not yet developed to the extent that it can accommodate logical reasoning. Whereas notable African scholars have responded to these charges as misleading whilst exploring ways of coming up with a logic …
Afro-Brazilian Religions by José Eduardo Porcher
The end of philosophy of religion as a discipline was announced by Timothy Knepper, who insists that the field, whether in its continental or analytic tradition, has reached its end. In a similar fashion, Bradly Onishi is ambivalent, if the discipline has anything to offer. On a related subject, Kevin Schilbrack tenders that these concerns arise mainly because the discipline: (1) focuses mostly on very few religious traditions; (2) places emphasi…
Conceptions of Divinity in African Philosophy of Religion
When early European sociologists, anthropologists, missionaries and ethnographers arrived in Africa and assessed African religious beliefs and practices, later referred to as African Traditional Religions (ATRs, hereafter), most concluded that the most suitable term, which captures the belief system is, polytheism. Whereas some conclude that African religions are best captured as paganism, other scholars take an ambivalent stance concerning the c…
Ọ̀rúnmìlà, Odù Ifá , Approximately 1100
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe and Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe and Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism. London: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 78, £49.99, ISBN 978-1009524933 (hbk)
Ìwà
"This book approaches the subject of African metaphysics historically as it connects Ancient Egypt to Yoráubâa. It provides a history of African metaphysics from ancient Egypt or Kemet down to John Boakye Danquah and Placide Tempels in the 20th century and then Innocent Asouzu, Ada Agada, and Aribiah David Attoe, in the 21st century. As it surpasses the deductions of these previous works, it moves further to showcase African originality and appro…
The Four Categories of Ìwà Metaphysics and the Nature of Entities
An Inquiry into the “Maleness” of God in African Traditional Religions
In recent times, religious cultures across sub-Saharan Africa have shown a penchant for a masculine conception of God. However, in traditional African religions it is a general and cardinal belief that the sex of God has not been observed or revealed. Nevertheless, rendering God as masculine has evolved into a norm. This article explores the linguistics of the Igbo and Yorùbá to challenge this “masculine given.” Through philosophical analysis, th…
Some comments over the Yorùbá origins of Candomblé and other Afro-Brazilian Religions
Candomblé is one of many Afro-Brazilian religions that boast of African origins consequent, especially of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In recent times, efforts toward vitiating the transnational link between Africa and Brazil as unstable, historically, and socially have become replete among some scholars – the claim being that merely finding the echoes of Africa in the Americas are not sufficient grounds to ferment an essentialist perception o…
Is Ifá Divination Girded by Logic? A Case for Ezumezu Logic
Several criteria for what constitutes African philosophy have been offered by different African and non-African scholars. For Jonathan Chimakonam (Ezumezu: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies. Cham: Switzerland, 2019), a philosophy is either African, Western, or Asian because of the logic that fortifies it. Chimakonam, following this conviction, foregrounds Ezumezu logic as a prototypical African logic which mediates thought, the…
Is There Any Evidence for Hell in the Ifá Literary Corpus
Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded critical scrutiny. Specifically, the works of Ogunnade, Odebolu, Shittu and Odeyemi have argued for a Yorùbá notion of Hell even when there is no evidence for such in the theology and traditional practices of the peoples. The aim of…
W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts
Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. The criteria are the former’s language and logic. The West’s fundamental but implicit aim is to unearth African equivalents of Western concepts and the failure to dis…
Perceptions of Ectogenesis among Prominent African and Western Feminists
Medical and technological breakthroughs opened the way for ectogenesis as a way of carrying to full term foetuses that would otherwise have been lost to death. Subsequently, most Western feminists have found in ectogenesis a plausible tool for combating patriarchy. Hence, some Western feminist scholars have recently started questioning the essence of natural birth and whether it is even necessary at all, considering the bodily and psychological d…
“Who/What Neglected the Monotheism?”
Neglected monotheism is how Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe designate the common denominator among the various religious cultures found across sub-Saharan Africa. This is a product of their engagement with such traditional African religious themes as God’s nature, God’s will, life beyond death, and the duration of existence beyond or without a body consequent on death. This article uses traditional Yoruba theology and its ritual archive, the If…
An Argument for the Non-Existence of the Devil in African Traditional Religions
In this essay, I will argue that the discourse over the existence of the Devil/Satan has no place among the religious cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. This may be contrasted with the numerous efforts in the dominant philosophy of religion tradition in the Anglo-American sphere, where efforts toward the establishing grounds for the existence of God have occupied and commanded so much attention. On the other hand, it seems to have been taken for gra…
“Is it possible to do Postmodern Philosophy Unbeknownst?”
This article takes its inspiration from Jacques Derrida to consider how deconstructionism can be done inadvertently. This possibility is underscored when one considers how a very significant phrase in Ifá texts— “A díá fún . . .” has been construed away from its transliteration as “Ifá divination was performed for . . .” by each of Oluwole and Karenga. Oluwole justifies her “deconstruction” on the grounds that such transliteration does not captur…
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa
It is pertinent, at this point in human intellectual history, to address the pervasive but misleading position among Africans that witchcraft is necessarily feminine and cruel. The medieval era’s untenable conception and detection of witchcraft as an absolutely callous and womanly affair filtered into colonial and then contemporary Africa to become full-blown via Pentecostalism, with horrendous social consequences. From personal research, I foreg…
Between fiction and fact
In his [Africans are not Black: The Case for Conceptual Liberation], Kwesi Tsri relies extensively on myths and non-fictional narratives to dictate the origin of the racial disparagement of Afro-Americans and Africans from south of the Sahara. Owing to the synonymy between ‘black’ and ‘Africa(n)’ as well as the derogatory symbolism in the former that fuels the latter, Tsri submits the need to disassociate Africans from the concept, ‘black.’ Upon …
On Religious Intolerance in YorùbáSociety
In recent times, conflicts and extremism linked to Abrahamic monotheisms have reached an alarming level, both nationally and internationally. The Yorb, aboriginals in south-west Nigeria, have experienced an unfair share of this horrid trend. Unfair, because the intrusion of Christianity and Islam into Yorb life contributed to upsetting the serenity and spiritual balance of the people. Forced conversion, faiths preaching hate towards and inferiori…
Unveiling Ezumezu logic as a framework for process ontology and Yorùbá ontology
Ezumezu, a prototype African logic, developed by Jonathan Chimakonam as a framework which mediates thought, theory and method in the African place, is according to him, extendable and applicable in places non-African too. This seems to underscore the universal character of the logic. I interrogate, in this piece, the logic to see if it truly mediates thought, theory and method in Yorùbá ontology (African) on the one hand, and process ontology (no…
Ifá divination as an exercise in deconstructionism
While deconstructionism, one of the cardinal features of postmodern philosophy, was not popular until the preceding century in Western intellectual circles, the traditional Yorùbá are not new to the practice. This claim is especially striking once an inquiry into the procedural and epistemic underpinning of Ifá divination is attempted. If this holds, it is not unwise to query: Who are the Yorùbá? What kind of practice in Ifá divination is redolen…
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism
Some comments over the Yorùbá origins of Candomblé and other Afro-Brazilian Religions
Candomblé is one of many Afro-Brazilian religions that boast of African origins consequent, especially of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In recent times, efforts toward vitiating the transnational link between Africa and Brazil as unstable, historically, and socially have become replete among some scholars – the claim being that merely finding the echoes of Africa in the Americas are not sufficient grounds to ferment an essentialist perception o…
Is There Any Evidence for Hell in the Ifá Literary Corpus
Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded critical scrutiny. Specifically, the works of Ogunnade, Odebolu, Shittu and Odeyemi have argued for a Yorùbá notion of Hell even when there is no evidence for such in the theology and traditional practices of the peoples. The aim of…
Unveiling Ezumezu logic as a framework for process ontology and Yorùbá ontology
Ezumezu, a prototype African logic, developed by Jonathan Chimakonam as a framework which mediates thought, theory and method in the African place, is according to him, extendable and applicable in places non-African too. This seems to underscore the universal character of the logic. I interrogate, in this piece, the logic to see if it truly mediates thought, theory and method in Yorùbá ontology (African) on the one hand, and process ontology (no…
Ifá divination as an exercise in deconstructionism
While deconstructionism, one of the cardinal features of postmodern philosophy, was not popular until the preceding century in Western intellectual circles, the traditional Yorùbá are not new to the practice. This claim is especially striking once an inquiry into the procedural and epistemic underpinning of Ifá divination is attempted. If this holds, it is not unwise to query: Who are the Yorùbá? What kind of practice in Ifá divination is redolen…
Between fiction and fact
In his [Africans are not Black: The Case for Conceptual Liberation], Kwesi Tsri relies extensively on myths and non-fictional narratives to dictate the origin of the racial disparagement of Afro-Americans and Africans from south of the Sahara. Owing to the synonymy between ‘black’ and ‘Africa(n)’ as well as the derogatory symbolism in the former that fuels the latter, Tsri submits the need to disassociate Africans from the concept, ‘black.’ Upon …
On Religious Intolerance in YorùbáSociety
In recent times, conflicts and extremism linked to Abrahamic monotheisms have reached an alarming level, both nationally and internationally. The Yorb, aboriginals in south-west Nigeria, have experienced an unfair share of this horrid trend. Unfair, because the intrusion of Christianity and Islam into Yorb life contributed to upsetting the serenity and spiritual balance of the people. Forced conversion, faiths preaching hate towards and inferiori…
“Is it possible to do Postmodern Philosophy Unbeknownst?”
This article takes its inspiration from Jacques Derrida to consider how deconstructionism can be done inadvertently. This possibility is underscored when one considers how a very significant phrase in Ifá texts— “A díá fún . . .” has been construed away from its transliteration as “Ifá divination was performed for . . .” by each of Oluwole and Karenga. Oluwole justifies her “deconstruction” on the grounds that such transliteration does not captur…
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa
It is pertinent, at this point in human intellectual history, to address the pervasive but misleading position among Africans that witchcraft is necessarily feminine and cruel. The medieval era’s untenable conception and detection of witchcraft as an absolutely callous and womanly affair filtered into colonial and then contemporary Africa to become full-blown via Pentecostalism, with horrendous social consequences. From personal research, I foreg…
W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts
Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. The criteria are the former’s language and logic. The West’s fundamental but implicit aim is to unearth African equivalents of Western concepts and the failure to dis…
Perceptions of Ectogenesis among Prominent African and Western Feminists
Medical and technological breakthroughs opened the way for ectogenesis as a way of carrying to full term foetuses that would otherwise have been lost to death. Subsequently, most Western feminists have found in ectogenesis a plausible tool for combating patriarchy. Hence, some Western feminist scholars have recently started questioning the essence of natural birth and whether it is even necessary at all, considering the bodily and psychological d…
“Who/What Neglected the Monotheism?”
Neglected monotheism is how Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe designate the common denominator among the various religious cultures found across sub-Saharan Africa. This is a product of their engagement with such traditional African religious themes as God’s nature, God’s will, life beyond death, and the duration of existence beyond or without a body consequent on death. This article uses traditional Yoruba theology and its ritual archive, the If…
An Argument for the Non-Existence of the Devil in African Traditional Religions
In this essay, I will argue that the discourse over the existence of the Devil/Satan has no place among the religious cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. This may be contrasted with the numerous efforts in the dominant philosophy of religion tradition in the Anglo-American sphere, where efforts toward the establishing grounds for the existence of God have occupied and commanded so much attention. On the other hand, it seems to have been taken for gra…
Is Ifá Divination Girded by Logic? A Case for Ezumezu Logic
Several criteria for what constitutes African philosophy have been offered by different African and non-African scholars. For Jonathan Chimakonam (Ezumezu: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies. Cham: Switzerland, 2019), a philosophy is either African, Western, or Asian because of the logic that fortifies it. Chimakonam, following this conviction, foregrounds Ezumezu logic as a prototypical African logic which mediates thought, the…
Is There Any Evidence for Hell in the Ifá Literary Corpus
Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded critical scrutiny. Specifically, the works of Ogunnade, Odebolu, Shittu and Odeyemi have argued for a Yorùbá notion of Hell even when there is no evidence for such in the theology and traditional practices of the peoples. The aim of…
Ọ̀rúnmìlà, Odù Ifá , Approximately 1100
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe and Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe and Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism. London: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 78, £49.99, ISBN 978-1009524933 (hbk)
Ìwà
"This book approaches the subject of African metaphysics historically as it connects Ancient Egypt to Yoráubâa. It provides a history of African metaphysics from ancient Egypt or Kemet down to John Boakye Danquah and Placide Tempels in the 20th century and then Innocent Asouzu, Ada Agada, and Aribiah David Attoe, in the 21st century. As it surpasses the deductions of these previous works, it moves further to showcase African originality and appro…
The Four Categories of Ìwà Metaphysics and the Nature of Entities
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism
An Inquiry into the “Maleness” of God in African Traditional Religions
In recent times, religious cultures across sub-Saharan Africa have shown a penchant for a masculine conception of God. However, in traditional African religions it is a general and cardinal belief that the sex of God has not been observed or revealed. Nevertheless, rendering God as masculine has evolved into a norm. This article explores the linguistics of the Igbo and Yorùbá to challenge this “masculine given.” Through philosophical analysis, th…
Some comments over the Yorùbá origins of Candomblé and other Afro-Brazilian Religions
Candomblé is one of many Afro-Brazilian religions that boast of African origins consequent, especially of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In recent times, efforts toward vitiating the transnational link between Africa and Brazil as unstable, historically, and socially have become replete among some scholars – the claim being that merely finding the echoes of Africa in the Americas are not sufficient grounds to ferment an essentialist perception o…
Helen Verran and the Question of African Logic
Hitherto, the African intellect had been decimated by notable European scholars such as David Hume, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hegel, Lucien Levy-Bruhl to name a few. The common denominator among these male scholars is that the African intellect is not yet developed to the extent that it can accommodate logical reasoning. Whereas notable African scholars have responded to these charges as misleading whilst exploring ways of coming up with a logic …
Afro-Brazilian Religions by José Eduardo Porcher
The end of philosophy of religion as a discipline was announced by Timothy Knepper, who insists that the field, whether in its continental or analytic tradition, has reached its end. In a similar fashion, Bradly Onishi is ambivalent, if the discipline has anything to offer. On a related subject, Kevin Schilbrack tenders that these concerns arise mainly because the discipline: (1) focuses mostly on very few religious traditions; (2) places emphasi…
Conceptions of Divinity in African Philosophy of Religion
When early European sociologists, anthropologists, missionaries and ethnographers arrived in Africa and assessed African religious beliefs and practices, later referred to as African Traditional Religions (ATRs, hereafter), most concluded that the most suitable term, which captures the belief system is, polytheism. Whereas some conclude that African religions are best captured as paganism, other scholars take an ambivalent stance concerning the c…
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