About this Book

African Moral Consciousness invites the reader to experience a different way of understanding ethics. After demonstrating that African ethics is inseparably conjoined to rituals, this book goes on to show that African ethics is marginalised in the world today because of the tendency of conflating modernity with Western culture. The author argues that the need to go beyond modernity versus traditionalism is an imperative one for the ascendency of African Ethics. Stories and proverbs are integral to the genre of African ethics. This book maintains that since the majority of African people live in traditional areas, their ethical outlook is usually overlooked because of modernisation. The author has undoubtedly shown in both critical and to a certain extent advocacy that a lot can be learnt from African ethics. African Moral Consciousness will appeal to all scholars of different disciplines.