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1 online resource. |
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Vernon Series in Philosophy
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Vernon series in philosophy.
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Annotation This book is about a philosophical examination of the Death Penalty debate from an African philosophy perspective. In a 21st century world where the notions of human right and freedom are cardinal, this book considers the African perspective to capital punishment from two sub-Saharan African countries namely, Zimbabwe and Nigeria notorious for their poor human right records. The project is an edited collection comprising of 12 essays from Zimbabwean and Nigerian philosophers. As opinions continue to divide over the retention or abolition of the Death Penalty, some African philosophers from Zimbabwe and Nigeria attempt to localize this debate by raising the following questions: What is the meaning of life in the African place? Is it proper to take the human life under any guise at all? Who has the right to take the human life? Is the death penalty justified? Can it be justified on the bases of African traditions? Why should it be abolished? Why should it be retained?, etc. This book is the first of its kind to engage the tumultuous issue of capital punishment in the postcolonial Africa from a philosophical point of view. |
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Africanizing the Death Penalty Discourse : Philosophical views from Zimbabwe and Nigeria / Fainos Mangena -- The Death Penalty and the Sacro-Sanctity of Life : Perspectives in Igbo Ethics / Chukwuka Christian Emedolu -- Ndubuisi: An Igbo-African Understanding of the value of Human Life and its Implications for the Death Penalty Question / Uduma Oji Uduma, Victor C. A. Nweke -- The Death Penalty from an Igbo Cultural Perspective : A Nigerian Case Study / Christopher Agulanna -- The Death Penalty Debate in Contemporary Context : The Yoruba (African) Integrative Notion to the Rescue / Adebayo A. Aina -- Current Debates on the Death Penalty in Zimbabwe : A Philosophical Appraisal of Views from Critical Stakeholders / Fainos Mangena, Francis Machingura -- An Interrogation of Capital Punishment in Nigeria's Penal System : Towards a Fredom Theory of Punishment in African Philosophy / Jonathan O. Chimakonam -- The Western and African Underpinnings of the Death Penalty : A Comparative Analysis / Clive Tendai Zimunya, Joyline Gwara, Isaiah Munyiswa -- Amplifyiing the Anti-Death Penalty Discourse in Zimbabwe : Lessons from Chivanhu Justice / Ngoni Makuvaza -- Interrogating the Death Penalty Discourse and its Hidden Dynamics in an African Context / Tarisayi Andrea Chimuka -- Gender and the Death Penalty Law in Zimbabwe : An Exploratory Essay, Chipo M. Hatendi, Tatenda Mataka, Benjamin Gweru -- The Death Penalty in the Context of Xenophobia in South Africa, 2008 and 2015 / Alex Munyonga. |
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Capital punishment -- Africa.
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Capital punishment. |
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Africa. |
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Capital punishment -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Mangena, Fainos, editor.
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Chimakonam, Jonathan O., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Death penalty from an African perspective. Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2018] 9781622732623 1622732626 (OCoLC)1005103012 |
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9781622733750 (electronic book) |
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1622733754 (electronic book) |
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9781622732623 |
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1622732626 |
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