Critical notes on Hegel’s treatment of Africa

This paper interrogates the adequacy of Hegel’s cultural framework upon which he constructed a philosophy of history which excludes Africa from the scheme of things. In what follows, I argue that the Hegelian dialectic is a project aimed at the exclusion of Africa from the universal history, leading to certain problematic theses like the Hegelian thesis on slavery, which is connected to theproblem of class formation and his concept of thestate. This paper is therefore a refutation of the Hegelian position, drawing insights from Senghor’s discussion of Negritude as a geo-climatic contextualized ideology

Yoruba Idea of the Good Life in Ifa Literary Corpus: A Critical Analysis

Yorùbá ethics is predicated on the logic of Yorùbá metaphysics or ontology, which reflects the deity-mortal relationship that rules the lives of the Yorùbá. This also accentuates the fact that Yorùbá ethical systems congeal into the practical application of aspects of reality to the field of human conduct. This paper draws largely on Ifá, both as a complete Yorùbá philosophy and a primordial moral theorist, and questions the spurious impression that religion is the foundation of morality. The paper goes on to demonstrate how Ifá oral text amplifies the wider consequences of certain ethical teachings in order to secure a viable social order