Chielozona Eze
Biographic Data
| ID | 150004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chielozona Eze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chielozona |
| FAMILY NAME | Eze |
| SIGNATURE | EZE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9971-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Desire as power: The political philosophy of Zora Neale Hurston
In ‘The Uses of the Blues’, James Baldwin writes that the blues is a source of healing and creative energy; it has been the ultimate symbol of black people’s will to survive and thrive. The blues is an expression of self-love, one’s doggedness not to despise oneself. Above all, the blues is the art of raising a voice where silence has been ordered. It is thus a prototypical existentialist response to the world. If Zora Neale Hurston were to be a …
Friendship as Politics: Human Flourishing in Multiracial Democracy
In the recent past, political philosophers have turned their attention to what Martha Nussbaum has correctly termed ‘political emotions’, or the role of ordinary virtues in politics. For example, in The Politics of Moral Capital (2001), John Kane discusses the moral significance of Nelson Mandela in the maturation of South African democracy. Nussbaum rates Mandela's embodiment of generosity of spirit as a virtue that contributed to his success as…
Decolonisation in Africa: Love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital
The Rhodes Must Fall social movement infused new life into the decolonisation discourse in Africa. However, whereas most scholars agree on the need for decolonisation, there is little consensus or even clarity on what it actually means in our everyday encounter with others and engagement with reality. Indeed, much of the debate on the issue consists of a recycling of the arguments employed by the first generations of anticolonial/postcolonial sch…
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent soci…
Justice as a spiritual quest
This essay is based on the assumption that retributive justice fails to capture the immense riches of the human condition. Exploring the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), it argues that restorative justice must be seen as complementary to the retributive and other conceptions of justice. Restorative justice is presented here as a spiritual journey, one that is best grasped through the prism of Benjamin’s spiritual elements …
The Aesthetics of Proximity and the Common Good
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Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu left an enduring legacy of forgiveness, openness, and solidarity in South Africa. This book looks at how the country's historic transition to democracy has not only changed the negative narrative about South Africa but also pro…
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
‘We, Afropolitans’
The Afropolitan is one who stakes moral claims to Africa and the world, and conversely admits that others can lay the same claim to Africa. The Afropolitan believes that being African is not reductive to colour, heritage or autochthony; rather being African is expansive. Whoever has lived on the continent long enough to identify with it is African; out of this flow all other conceivable forms of relationships. We are all Africans, and we believe …
Rethinking African culture and identity: The Afropolitan model
Since the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity. There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination, cultural hybridity, cultur…
We, Afropolitans
Decolonisation and its discontents: Thoughts on the postcolonial African moral self
Decades after the end of colonialism, Africa seems well positioned to evaluate the successes or failures of Africa as a continent of liberated people. Nearly all analyses of African liberation movements have rightly highlighted the glories of decolonisation; very few have stressed its pitfalls. This article examines the negative moral consequences of certain philosophical assumptions of the African decolonisation process. Of particular interest i…
Transcultural affinity: Thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the ex-chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), made international headlines when he announced that he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. He further stated that he was as passionate about gay rights as he ever was about opposing apartheid. Tutu is not alone in promoting tolerance and openness to diversity in South Africa. Contemporary thinkers, writers, and poets are als…
Feminist Empathy: Unsettling African Cultural Norms inThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Africa has produced some of the more exciting literary works of the 21st century, and most were written by women. One of the things that these women have in common is their preoccupation with the pain that the African woman's body is subjected to by her society due to her gender. The writers are not shy about being called feminists, quite in contrast to the generation of writers before theirs. How are we to understand the concerns of these writer…
Death, Here I Am”: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying ”
“Death, Here I Am”:Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” Chielozona Eze (bio) Violence in African Literature Engagement with violence characterizes most works of African fiction published in the twentieth century, as Richard Priebe shows with such works as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Yambo Ouloguem’s Bound to Violence. The new millennium has its own share of texts in that genus: Nega Mezlekia’s Notes from the Hyena’s Bel…
Ambits of Moral Judgement: Of Pain, Empathy and Redemption in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
This article explores the structure of empathy in Age of Iron, and argues that the novel exposes the horrors of oppression constructed solely on the idea of the victims’ perceived difference to the self-appointed master race or class. Coetzee not only raises awareness of the dilemma of morally conscious individuals in our increasingly fractured and violent society; more particularly he sketches the problem of pain and the challenge it poses to th…
The Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness
The Ethical Dimension of Community: The African Model and the Dialogue between North and South by Bénezét Bujo
Rethinking African culture and identity: The Afropolitan model
Since the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity. There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination, cultural hybridity, cultur…
We, Afropolitans
Transcultural affinity: Thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the ex-chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), made international headlines when he announced that he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. He further stated that he was as passionate about gay rights as he ever was about opposing apartheid. Tutu is not alone in promoting tolerance and openness to diversity in South Africa. Contemporary thinkers, writers, and poets are als…
Feminist Empathy: Unsettling African Cultural Norms inThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Africa has produced some of the more exciting literary works of the 21st century, and most were written by women. One of the things that these women have in common is their preoccupation with the pain that the African woman's body is subjected to by her society due to her gender. The writers are not shy about being called feminists, quite in contrast to the generation of writers before theirs. How are we to understand the concerns of these writer…
Decolonisation and its discontents: Thoughts on the postcolonial African moral self
Decades after the end of colonialism, Africa seems well positioned to evaluate the successes or failures of Africa as a continent of liberated people. Nearly all analyses of African liberation movements have rightly highlighted the glories of decolonisation; very few have stressed its pitfalls. This article examines the negative moral consequences of certain philosophical assumptions of the African decolonisation process. Of particular interest i…
Death, Here I Am”: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying ”
“Death, Here I Am”:Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” Chielozona Eze (bio) Violence in African Literature Engagement with violence characterizes most works of African fiction published in the twentieth century, as Richard Priebe shows with such works as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Yambo Ouloguem’s Bound to Violence. The new millennium has its own share of texts in that genus: Nega Mezlekia’s Notes from the Hyena’s Bel…
The Ethical Dimension of Community: The African Model and the Dialogue between North and South by Bénezét Bujo
The Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness
Ambits of Moral Judgement: Of Pain, Empathy and Redemption in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
This article explores the structure of empathy in Age of Iron, and argues that the novel exposes the horrors of oppression constructed solely on the idea of the victims’ perceived difference to the self-appointed master race or class. Coetzee not only raises awareness of the dilemma of morally conscious individuals in our increasingly fractured and violent society; more particularly he sketches the problem of pain and the challenge it poses to th…
Death, Here I Am”: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying ”
“Death, Here I Am”:Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” Chielozona Eze (bio) Violence in African Literature Engagement with violence characterizes most works of African fiction published in the twentieth century, as Richard Priebe shows with such works as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Yambo Ouloguem’s Bound to Violence. The new millennium has its own share of texts in that genus: Nega Mezlekia’s Notes from the Hyena’s Bel…
Decolonisation and its discontents: Thoughts on the postcolonial African moral self
Decades after the end of colonialism, Africa seems well positioned to evaluate the successes or failures of Africa as a continent of liberated people. Nearly all analyses of African liberation movements have rightly highlighted the glories of decolonisation; very few have stressed its pitfalls. This article examines the negative moral consequences of certain philosophical assumptions of the African decolonisation process. Of particular interest i…
Transcultural affinity: Thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the ex-chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), made international headlines when he announced that he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. He further stated that he was as passionate about gay rights as he ever was about opposing apartheid. Tutu is not alone in promoting tolerance and openness to diversity in South Africa. Contemporary thinkers, writers, and poets are als…
Feminist Empathy: Unsettling African Cultural Norms inThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Africa has produced some of the more exciting literary works of the 21st century, and most were written by women. One of the things that these women have in common is their preoccupation with the pain that the African woman's body is subjected to by her society due to her gender. The writers are not shy about being called feminists, quite in contrast to the generation of writers before theirs. How are we to understand the concerns of these writer…
We, Afropolitans
‘We, Afropolitans’
The Afropolitan is one who stakes moral claims to Africa and the world, and conversely admits that others can lay the same claim to Africa. The Afropolitan believes that being African is not reductive to colour, heritage or autochthony; rather being African is expansive. Whoever has lived on the continent long enough to identify with it is African; out of this flow all other conceivable forms of relationships. We are all Africans, and we believe …
Rethinking African culture and identity: The Afropolitan model
Since the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity. There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination, cultural hybridity, cultur…
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu left an enduring legacy of forgiveness, openness, and solidarity in South Africa. This book looks at how the country's historic transition to democracy has not only changed the negative narrative about South Africa but also pro…
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
The Aesthetics of Proximity and the Common Good
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent soci…
Justice as a spiritual quest
This essay is based on the assumption that retributive justice fails to capture the immense riches of the human condition. Exploring the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), it argues that restorative justice must be seen as complementary to the retributive and other conceptions of justice. Restorative justice is presented here as a spiritual journey, one that is best grasped through the prism of Benjamin’s spiritual elements …
Decolonisation in Africa: Love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital
The Rhodes Must Fall social movement infused new life into the decolonisation discourse in Africa. However, whereas most scholars agree on the need for decolonisation, there is little consensus or even clarity on what it actually means in our everyday encounter with others and engagement with reality. Indeed, much of the debate on the issue consists of a recycling of the arguments employed by the first generations of anticolonial/postcolonial sch…
Desire as power: The political philosophy of Zora Neale Hurston
In ‘The Uses of the Blues’, James Baldwin writes that the blues is a source of healing and creative energy; it has been the ultimate symbol of black people’s will to survive and thrive. The blues is an expression of self-love, one’s doggedness not to despise oneself. Above all, the blues is the art of raising a voice where silence has been ordered. It is thus a prototypical existentialist response to the world. If Zora Neale Hurston were to be a …
Friendship as Politics: Human Flourishing in Multiracial Democracy
In the recent past, political philosophers have turned their attention to what Martha Nussbaum has correctly termed ‘political emotions’, or the role of ordinary virtues in politics. For example, in The Politics of Moral Capital (2001), John Kane discusses the moral significance of Nelson Mandela in the maturation of South African democracy. Nussbaum rates Mandela's embodiment of generosity of spirit as a virtue that contributed to his success as…
Sociology (13 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works)