John Sodiq Sanni
Biographic Data
| ID | 312434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Sodiq Sanni |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Sodiq |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanni |
| SIGNATURE | SANNI J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4050-4492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An African Ethics of Shame
The conception of shame has often been implied in various ethical frameworks in African philosophy, but there has been little or no systematic engagement with the concept in ways that address its true nature and implications for African societies. society. There has been some research into when to feel guilt and resentment, but not much on when it is appropriate to feel shame, or the social implications of shame. This article engages Samantha Vic…
Internal Violence: An Invitation to the Decolonial Turn
The nature of colonial epistemology and ontology was, and in some ways remains, deeply rooted in universalist and absolutist ideologies. These ideologies legitimized and undermined other conflicting positions, as they were considered “barbaric,” “debased,” “primitive,” and “devoid of time” and were in need of civilization. These arguments justified all kinds of horrendous acts such as violence, assimilation, colonization, exploitation, and dehuma…
Agency and Violence: An African Philosophical Approach
Violence and African Philosophy: Beyond Reaction and Mimicry
Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. \n \nThe book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renamin…
Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy
More recent discussions in African philosophy have focused on substantive issues than the largely meta-philosophical discussions that African philosophers engaged in between the 1960s and 1990s. This makes this special issue very important. Collectively the articles in the issue, among others, explore contemporary topics in African philosophy and studies in the area of the political philosophy of need, oral tradition in philosophy, majoritarian d…
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs
The social, cultural and economic history of Africa informs the various political narratives on the continent. Among these narratives birthing various intellectual discourses are the questions of personhood and communitarianism, socialism, independence, decolonisation and ubuntu. Implicit in these discourses, yet less theorised, is an African political philosophy of needs. By an African political philosophy of needs, I refer to a political philos…
Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security
Ubuntu and the Ontology of Radical Escape
Communitarianism has been the dominant disposition of many African scholars towards ubuntu. The nature of the concept somewhat limits how one can theorise about ubuntu. However, I argue that there is still a lot more that can be harnessed from the ubuntu concept, especially as it pertains to the ontology of radical escape. I use radical escape as an ontological character of every human being whereby to exist is to escape. In this paper, I argue t…
In the Name of God? Religion, Silence and Extortion
This article critically analyses the role religion (I refer here to Islam and Christianity) has played in promoting silence and extortion in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria. In my philosophical analysis, African and Western literatures will guide my reflection on religion, the role it played in advancing the colonial agenda and its use in today’s African societies. This analysis seeks to present a case for the position that the coloni…
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa
This article addresses the persistent reality of gender-based violence in South Africa. It does this by approaching the issue of gender from the African philosophical position of ubuntu. The concept of ubuntu is one that is readily used by most African scholars to show that ubuntu is gender-neutral as it focuses on the idea of togetherness. While this article considers the ontological foundation of ubuntu a significant starting point, it seeks to…
The Negritude Movement: W.E.B Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the evolution of an insurgent idea
Reiland Rabaka’s The Negritude Movement (2015) addressing, in five main sections, the social reality that gave birth to the negritude movement. While focusing on the negritude as a social movement
Ethnic and racial valorisations in Nigeria and South Africa: How ubuntu may harm or help
Diversity is a fact of the social world; however, it can also be a problem if it leads to the valorisation of ethnic or racial identities. The social structures that inform the problems that arise from differences are based on historical, geographical, social, political, and economic stratifications; as well as on thought paradigms that either explicitly or implicitly promote the proliferation of binaries between “us and them”. We argue that an u…
Decolonising Borders
This paper seeks to address the problem of strangeness within the context of migration in Africa. I draw on historical realities that inform existing international and African discourses on migration. I hope to show that most African countries have unconsciously bought into international arguments that drive the legitimacy of building walls, visible and invisible, and the promotion of stringent migration policies that minimise the influx of Afric…
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs
The social, cultural and economic history of Africa informs the various political narratives on the continent. Among these narratives birthing various intellectual discourses are the questions of personhood and communitarianism, socialism, independence, decolonisation and ubuntu. Implicit in these discourses, yet less theorised, is an African political philosophy of needs. By an African political philosophy of needs, I refer to a political philos…
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa
This article addresses the persistent reality of gender-based violence in South Africa. It does this by approaching the issue of gender from the African philosophical position of ubuntu. The concept of ubuntu is one that is readily used by most African scholars to show that ubuntu is gender-neutral as it focuses on the idea of togetherness. While this article considers the ontological foundation of ubuntu a significant starting point, it seeks to…
Decolonising Borders
This paper seeks to address the problem of strangeness within the context of migration in Africa. I draw on historical realities that inform existing international and African discourses on migration. I hope to show that most African countries have unconsciously bought into international arguments that drive the legitimacy of building walls, visible and invisible, and the promotion of stringent migration policies that minimise the influx of Afric…
Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. \n \nThe book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renamin…
Ethnic and racial valorisations in Nigeria and South Africa: How ubuntu may harm or help
Diversity is a fact of the social world; however, it can also be a problem if it leads to the valorisation of ethnic or racial identities. The social structures that inform the problems that arise from differences are based on historical, geographical, social, political, and economic stratifications; as well as on thought paradigms that either explicitly or implicitly promote the proliferation of binaries between “us and them”. We argue that an u…
The Negritude Movement: W.E.B Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the evolution of an insurgent idea
Reiland Rabaka’s The Negritude Movement (2015) addressing, in five main sections, the social reality that gave birth to the negritude movement. While focusing on the negritude as a social movement
Ethnic and racial valorisations in Nigeria and South Africa: How ubuntu may harm or help
Diversity is a fact of the social world; however, it can also be a problem if it leads to the valorisation of ethnic or racial identities. The social structures that inform the problems that arise from differences are based on historical, geographical, social, political, and economic stratifications; as well as on thought paradigms that either explicitly or implicitly promote the proliferation of binaries between “us and them”. We argue that an u…
Decolonising Borders
This paper seeks to address the problem of strangeness within the context of migration in Africa. I draw on historical realities that inform existing international and African discourses on migration. I hope to show that most African countries have unconsciously bought into international arguments that drive the legitimacy of building walls, visible and invisible, and the promotion of stringent migration policies that minimise the influx of Afric…
Ubuntu and the Ontology of Radical Escape
Communitarianism has been the dominant disposition of many African scholars towards ubuntu. The nature of the concept somewhat limits how one can theorise about ubuntu. However, I argue that there is still a lot more that can be harnessed from the ubuntu concept, especially as it pertains to the ontology of radical escape. I use radical escape as an ontological character of every human being whereby to exist is to escape. In this paper, I argue t…
In the Name of God? Religion, Silence and Extortion
This article critically analyses the role religion (I refer here to Islam and Christianity) has played in promoting silence and extortion in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria. In my philosophical analysis, African and Western literatures will guide my reflection on religion, the role it played in advancing the colonial agenda and its use in today’s African societies. This analysis seeks to present a case for the position that the coloni…
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa
This article addresses the persistent reality of gender-based violence in South Africa. It does this by approaching the issue of gender from the African philosophical position of ubuntu. The concept of ubuntu is one that is readily used by most African scholars to show that ubuntu is gender-neutral as it focuses on the idea of togetherness. While this article considers the ontological foundation of ubuntu a significant starting point, it seeks to…
Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy
More recent discussions in African philosophy have focused on substantive issues than the largely meta-philosophical discussions that African philosophers engaged in between the 1960s and 1990s. This makes this special issue very important. Collectively the articles in the issue, among others, explore contemporary topics in African philosophy and studies in the area of the political philosophy of need, oral tradition in philosophy, majoritarian d…
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs
The social, cultural and economic history of Africa informs the various political narratives on the continent. Among these narratives birthing various intellectual discourses are the questions of personhood and communitarianism, socialism, independence, decolonisation and ubuntu. Implicit in these discourses, yet less theorised, is an African political philosophy of needs. By an African political philosophy of needs, I refer to a political philos…
Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security
Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. \n \nThe book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renamin…
Agency and Violence: An African Philosophical Approach
Violence and African Philosophy: Beyond Reaction and Mimicry
An African Ethics of Shame
The conception of shame has often been implied in various ethical frameworks in African philosophy, but there has been little or no systematic engagement with the concept in ways that address its true nature and implications for African societies. society. There has been some research into when to feel guilt and resentment, but not much on when it is appropriate to feel shame, or the social implications of shame. This article engages Samantha Vic…
Internal Violence: An Invitation to the Decolonial Turn
The nature of colonial epistemology and ontology was, and in some ways remains, deeply rooted in universalist and absolutist ideologies. These ideologies legitimized and undermined other conflicting positions, as they were considered “barbaric,” “debased,” “primitive,” and “devoid of time” and were in need of civilization. These arguments justified all kinds of horrendous acts such as violence, assimilation, colonization, exploitation, and dehuma…
African cultural and philosophical studies (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works)