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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.1 What is Agrarian Philosophy? -- 1.2 African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.3 The Necessity of Studying African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.4 Structure and Organization of the Book -- References -- Part I African Communitarian Agrarianism -- 2 Unpacking Ndebele Agrarian Metaphors for the Promotion and Preservation of Communal Social Development -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 African Indigenous Knowledge: An Overview -- 2.3 Conceptual Underpinnings -- 2.4 Methodology -- 2.5 Ndebele Agrarian Metaphors -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Farm-Village Practice of Yorùbá in West Africa -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Indigenous Geographies: A Conceptual Approach -- 3.3 Yorùbás -- 3.4 Agrarian Practice: Nearby Farms and Outlying Farms -- 3.5 The Outlying Farm: The Farm-Village Practice -- 3.6 Farm Village Practice in Nineteenth Century Urban-Hinterland Relations: The Ibadan Experience -- 3.7 The Farm Village-An Integrated Model -- 3.8 The Farm Village-An Agrarian Thought Amongst the Yorùbá -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- 4 On the Confluence of Permaculture and African Agrarianism -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Permaculture Example and Potential Motivations -- 4.2.1 Example -- 4.2.2 Potential Motivations -- 4.3 African Agrarianism: Resonances -- 4.3.1 Example -- 4.3.2 Conceptual Aspects of African Agrarianism -- 4.4 The Tragedy of Centralisation: The Waste-Water Treatment Example -- 4.4.1 Illustration/Problem -- 4.4.2 Remedy -- 4.5 SMART Targets -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Dialogue Between African Agrarian Philosophy and Adam Smith on Underdevelopment and Resource Dependence in Africa -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Economics in Africa -- 5.2.1 Underdevelopment -- 5.2.2 Resource Dependence -- 5.3 Agrarian Philosophy in Africa and Adam Smith.
5.3.1 Agrarianism, the Land and Community -- 5.3.2 Agrarianism and Development -- 5.4 Sustainable Agrarian Economics in Africa -- 5.4.1 Ethical Economics -- 5.4.2 Sectoral Development -- 5.4.3 Justice as a Relational Concept -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Moral Status of Non-human Nature in African Agrarian Thought -- 6 Defending a Relational Account of Moral Status -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 An Overview of Modal Relationalism -- 6.3 Weaker Objections -- 6.4 Charges of Incompleteness -- 6.5 Charges of Elitism -- 6.6 Concluding Statements on Remaining Concerns -- References -- 7 The Phenomenon of Male and Female Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture: Implication for Gender Equality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Concept of Gender Equality -- 7.3 Male and Female Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture: The Praxis, the Myth and Ritualization -- 7.4 The Metaphysics of Gendering Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture -- 7.5 Male and Female Crops: Implications for Gender Equality -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 The Religious Significance of Mushrooms Among the Shona People of Zimbabwe: An Ethnomycological Approach -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 A Conceptual Understanding of Wild Mushroom in African Religious Traditions (ARTs) -- 8.3 Human-Mushroom Relationship in Indigenous Communities: An Enduring Ecocentric Heritage -- 8.4 The Indigenous Shona People Understand Wild Mushroom as a Vehicle of Indigenous Soteriology -- 8.5 Discussion and Ethical Implications of the Study Findings -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part III African Agrarianism and Environmental Ethics -- 9 The Consubstantiality of Living Things: Towards a Mandingo Cosmo-Anthropocentric Ethics -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 On the Consubstantiality of the Elements of the Cosmos -- 9.3 The Reaction of Nature in Relation to Human Attempts at Omnipotence -- 9.4 Cosmo-Anthropocentric Ethics.
9.5 Equality of the Moral Value of All Living Things -- 9.6 The Principle of the Universal Connection of All Living Things -- 9.7 The Principle of the Necessity for the Preservation of All for the Protection of Each Other -- 9.8 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Ɨwu-ɨ-Kom-ɨ-Twal: Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Triadic Worldview as the Basis of Kom Agrarian-Environmental Thought -- 10.3 Wayn (Child (ren)) -- 10.4 Afo-aghina (Food) -- 10.5 Nyamngvin (Communal flourishing/Welfare) -- 10.6 Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics -- 10.7 Traditional Authorities and the Enforcement of Agrarian-Environmental Values -- 10.7.1 Agrarian Rituals and Environmental Protection in Kom Culture -- 10.8 Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics and Obligations to Future Generations -- 10.9 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Land Ethics Among the Traditional Annangs of Southern Nigeria: Traditional Environmental Ethics, Challenging Contemporary Hostilities Towards Our planet -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 African Environmental Ethics -- 11.3 The Annangs and the Environment -- 11.4 The Annang Worldview -- 11.5 The Upper Ether -- 11.6 The Lower Ether -- 11.7 The Land of the Dead -- 11.8 Nature -- 11.9 Nature is Sacred -- 11.10 The Mother Earth -- 11.11 Critical Evaluation, Proposals and Conclusion -- 11.12 The Hazardous Divorce from Nature -- 11.13 Proposals -- 11.14 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Shangwe Environmental Ethics: A Panacea for Agrarian Problems in Gokwe -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Agrarian History and Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- 12.3 Agrarian Problems in Gokwe Region: A Menace in the Shangwe Communities -- 12.4 Environmental Ethics as a Prescription for Agrarian Problems in Gokwe -- 12.5 Shangwe Environmental Ethics and Water Conservation -- 12.6 Conclusion -- References.
13 Agrarian Rituals, Food Security and Environmental Conservation in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Setting: Landscape, People and Worldview -- 13.3 Rituals and the Control of Ecological and Weather Conditions -- 13.4 Annual Planting Rituals -- 13.5 Harvest Celebration Rituals: Evidence of Food Security -- 13.6 Environmental Preservation -- 13.7 Conclusion -- References -- 14 Indigenous African Eco-communitarian Agrarian Philosophy: Lessons on Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from the Nsoq Culture of North West Cameroon -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 A Brief History of the Nsoq People -- 14.3 The Geographical Location -- 14.4 The Nsoq Worldview -- 14.5 The Nsoq Concept of Nature -- 14.6 The Relationship Between Man and Nature -- 14.7 The Nsoq Concept of Man as a Being-With-Others -- 14.8 The Eco-bio-communitarian Dimension of Farming in Nsoq -- 14.9 The Nsoq Farming Ethics -- 14.10 Conservative and Sustainable Elements of Nsoq Agrarian Ethics -- 14.11 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Agrarianism, and Higher Education -- 15 The Emergence of a Re-humanizing Pedagogy for African Agrarian Philosophy -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Need for a Re-humanising Pedagogy -- 15.3 In Practice: A Two-Week Training by the African Learning Institute -- 15.3.1 Story Telling: Starting from People's Own Stories -- 15.3.2 Elders Panel: Reviving Indigenous Knowledge -- 15.3.3 Spiritual Practices: Burning Ritual and Connecting with the Ancestral-World of the Living-Dead -- 15.3.4 Community Visits and Residential Program -- 15.3.5 Evaluation, Post-training Activities and Challenges -- 15.4 Exploring a Re-humanising Pedagogy for African Agrarian Philosophy -- 15.4.1 An African Agrarian Philosophy with Memory -- 15.4.2 A Dialogical Student-Teacher Relation.
15.4.3 The Value of Lived Experiences -- 15.4.4 Relationality with Human Beings and Mother Earth -- 15.4.5 Intergenerational and Spiritual Methods of Education -- 15.4.6 Unity Between Theory and Practice -- 15.4.7 Critical Consciousness About People's Rights -- 15.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- References -- 16 African Endogenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Evolving an African Agrarian Philosophy -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Conceptual Labyrinth -- 16.3 African Ecological Knowledge System -- 16.4 African Endogenous Knowledge and Modern Scientific Knowledge -- 16.5 A Maze of African Agrarianism -- 16.6 Tiv (Nigerian) Agrarian Practices -- 16.7 The Evolution of African Agrarian Philosophy -- 16.8 Conclusion -- References -- 17 The Shona People's 'Zunde raMambo' (King's Granary) as a Model for Social Responsibility: A Task for Higher Education Systems -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Who Are the Shona People, and What is 'Zunde raMambo'? -- 17.3 Justifying Reviving Zunde raMambo in Contemporary Educational Discourse -- 17.4 Ethical Implications of 'Zunde raMambo' -- 17.5 Educational Lessons -- 17.6 How Higher Education May Achieve the Expectations -- 17.7 Conclusion -- References -- 18 The Practice of African Indigenous Medicine and Agrarianism in Madamombe Area (Chivi District-Zimbabwe) -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Traditional Institutions and Agrarianism -- 18.3 African Indigenous Medicine and Agrarianism -- 18.4 Crop Management: Planting, Enhancing, Protecting, and Postharvest Storage -- 18.5 The Future of the Use of AIM in Agriculture -- 18.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part V Contemporary Agrarian Issues in Africa -- 19 Henry Odera Oruka's Parental Earth Ethics as Ethics of Duty: Towards Ecological Fairness and Global Justice -- 19.1 Introduction: Philosophy Must Be Made Sagacious.
19.2 Grounding African Agrarian Philosophy on Oruka's Parental Earth Ethics.
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African Agrarian Philosophy
