Josias Tembo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josias Tembo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josias |
| FAMILY NAME | Tembo |
| SIGNATURE | TEMBO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0873-7392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonial African Agency and Same-Sex Relations
In this article, I show how discourses of African tradition, human rights, and African indigeneity circumscribe and curtail the emancipatory potential of discussions of same-sex relations in Africa. The terms of the debate on both sides—those who claim that same-sex relations are ‘un-African’ and the critics who rightly challenge this view—are circumscribed by what I call the religious-secular divide. This divide continues to entrap discussions o…
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn
n Contains fulltext :\n 250212.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Race-religion constellation
In this article, I argue that a trans-Atlantic account of the constellations of race and religion demands that we understand racist thinking to be constituted by complex conceptual formations and relations. The failure to identify the conceptual complexity and interactive relations in racist thinking has led to universalist and exclusionary definitions of racist thinking and limited conceptions of the constellations of race and religion. Because …
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa
Contains fulltext : 303355.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Exploring the entanglement of race and religion in Africa
This special issue is meant to begin to address the lacuna in research on the entanglements of race and religion by focusing on one specific geographical region - Africa. The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialisation. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent was based on racial exclusion in terms of the colour line. While most research focuses o…
Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault’s Self-Styling and African Identity
Achille Mbembe’s article “African Modes of Self-Writing” (2001), which is a precursor to his book On the Postcolony (2001), challenges essentialist conceptions of African identity and their theoretical and political poverty, and in turn offers a fluid conception of African subjectivities. Reviewing anti-colonial and postcolonial theories of African identity, Mbembe contends that dominant notions of African identity are tropes of Nativism and Afro…
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn
n Contains fulltext :\n 250212.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Race-religion constellation
In this article, I argue that a trans-Atlantic account of the constellations of race and religion demands that we understand racist thinking to be constituted by complex conceptual formations and relations. The failure to identify the conceptual complexity and interactive relations in racist thinking has led to universalist and exclusionary definitions of racist thinking and limited conceptions of the constellations of race and religion. Because …
Exploring the entanglement of race and religion in Africa
This special issue is meant to begin to address the lacuna in research on the entanglements of race and religion by focusing on one specific geographical region - Africa. The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialisation. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent was based on racial exclusion in terms of the colour line. While most research focuses o…
Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault’s Self-Styling and African Identity
Achille Mbembe’s article “African Modes of Self-Writing” (2001), which is a precursor to his book On the Postcolony (2001), challenges essentialist conceptions of African identity and their theoretical and political poverty, and in turn offers a fluid conception of African subjectivities. Reviewing anti-colonial and postcolonial theories of African identity, Mbembe contends that dominant notions of African identity are tropes of Nativism and Afro…
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn
n Contains fulltext :\n 250212.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Race-religion constellation
In this article, I argue that a trans-Atlantic account of the constellations of race and religion demands that we understand racist thinking to be constituted by complex conceptual formations and relations. The failure to identify the conceptual complexity and interactive relations in racist thinking has led to universalist and exclusionary definitions of racist thinking and limited conceptions of the constellations of race and religion. Because …
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa
Contains fulltext : 303355.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Exploring the entanglement of race and religion in Africa
This special issue is meant to begin to address the lacuna in research on the entanglements of race and religion by focusing on one specific geographical region - Africa. The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialisation. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent was based on racial exclusion in terms of the colour line. While most research focuses o…
Decolonial African Agency and Same-Sex Relations
In this article, I show how discourses of African tradition, human rights, and African indigeneity circumscribe and curtail the emancipatory potential of discussions of same-sex relations in Africa. The terms of the debate on both sides—those who claim that same-sex relations are ‘un-African’ and the critics who rightly challenge this view—are circumscribed by what I call the religious-secular divide. This divide continues to entrap discussions o…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)