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Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by UP Author "Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke"
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Osuagwu, Ndubuisi; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Calabar School of Philosophy, 2018-01)
In this article, we argue that language-based techniques have the
capacity to generate original ideas and thus account for progress in any
discipline. We claim that language-based techniques used by some
African scholars ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna
(MDPI, 2022-10-31)
Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction
challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to
the normal functioning of societies around ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna
(Oxford University Press, 2024-04)
This article investigates whether Conversational Thinking can suitably serve as a pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools (primary and secondary levels). We argue that there is a need to introduce ...
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Attoe, Aribiah David; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Unisa Press, 2020)
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that there is nothing so special about the human race that particularly makes it immune to decimation. This is at odds ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Chimakonam, Amara Esther
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)
We argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from the unequal binary that characterizes the
bivalent structure of Western discourses in the philosophy of religion. This structure pits God
against the devil, but ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2022-03)
This essay argues that the inherent value of Indigenous African Religions
(IARs), which ensures that the belief in different gods does not eclipse the fact
of common humanity might be of importance to contemporary Africa ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Egbai, Uti O.
(Routledge, 2024)
In this paper, we will investigate whether or not the name ‘Africa’ can be seen as a slur. Since the name was given by European exploiters, slavers and colonists, it raises the question of whether such a name should continue ...
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Egbai, Uti Ojah; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)
The authors argue in this article that some categories of amnesty
programmes, such as ‘blanket’ and ‘self-granted amnesties’ that bar the
prosecution of perpetrators, have not been very helpful in the protection of
the ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Agada, Ada
(Springer, 2020-12)
We note that a political consensus on LGBT rights equating human rights is nowhere in sight in contemporary Nigeria. We rekindle the debate between universalism, as represented by the claim that human rights are the same ...
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Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Routledge, 2020)
Land redistribution in post-apartheid South Africa is a problem that has caused division and violence in the country. Particularly, the dispossession of land suffered by many Africans in South Africa and the failure of ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Sage, 2020-06)
A dominant conception of poverty among many researchers is that it is a form of deprivation. There is, however, more focus on the idea of poverty as physical deprivation than there is on psychological deprivation. I argue ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke
(Unisa Press, 2019)
I examine colour-branding of humans, a phenomenon I denounce as leading to a dangerous “politic.” My lead questions shall be: Is it correct to profile or brand different peoples with colours? Do the symbolic meanings of ...