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This book challenges colonial and age-old Western academic views that have dominated and marginalised African indigenous knowledge system. It spreads further the wings of knowledge and endeavour about an African way of thinking on conflict resolution and co-existence, and analytically connects this to the pursuit of Africa's sustainable development frameworks. Ohta, Nyamnjoh and Matsuda are teachers you always wished for but never had. Together, they have made this book a path-breaking one, and essential reading for a broad based understanding of the African mindset.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright page
  2. pp. i-ii
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. iii-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction. African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness
  2. Motoji Matsuda, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Itaru Ohta
  3. pp. 1-26
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  1. Part 1 - How African Society Can Be Decolonised and Liberated
  1. Chapter 1. DECOLONIALITY. Who is Afraid of Epistemic Relativism? Disentangling African Philosophy from the 'Universalist' Entrapment
  2. Husein Inusah
  3. pp. 29-50
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  1. Chapter 2. UNIVERSALS. Activating Latent Cultural Potentials and Social Prescriptions: The Potential for Emancipatory Political Thought in African Popular Cultures
  2. Michael Neocosmos
  3. pp. 51-72
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  1. Chapter 3. MOBILITY. Mobility as Freedom, and Hospitality as Kinship: Reflections on the African Potentials for Using Solidarity to Manage Global Challenges
  2. Owen B. Sichone
  3. pp. 73-94
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  1. Part 2 - How Contradictions Are Resolved
  1. Chapter 4. NEGOTIATION. Palaver and Consensus: How Contradictions Are Reconciled in Africa
  2. Itaru Ohta
  3. pp. 97-118
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  1. Chapter 5. PEACEBUILDING. Exploring Local Peacebuilding Potentials in Northwestern Kenya: The Case of West Pokot
  2. Elizabeth Ndunda and Kennedy Mkutu
  3. pp. 119-142
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  1. Chapter 6. INGOVERNMENTALITY. 'Eating Chiefs': Explaining the Tolerance of the People of South Sudan for Bad Political Leaders
  2. Eisei Kurimoto
  3. pp. 143-154
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  1. Part 3 - How We Confront the Hegemonic System of the Modern World
  1. Chapter 7. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge Sharing: Epistemology Lessons for Modern Culture from Traditional African Oral Culture
  2. Shoko Yamada
  3. pp. 157-182
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  1. Chapter 8. CHILDHOOD. Childhood and Children: Realities and Reimaginations in Sub-Sahara Africa's Development
  2. Yaw Ofosu-Kusi
  3. pp. 183-206
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  1. Chapter 9. MONEY. How Money Builds Communities: A Study of ROSCAs in Cameroon and Japan
  2. Misa Hirano-Nomoto
  3. pp. 207-224
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  1. Chapter 10. CIRCULATION. Waste Valorisation and African Potentials: The Forgotten Life of Things and Their Rebirth in Mass Consumption Capitalism
  2. Shuichi Oyama
  3. pp. 225-252
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  1. Part 4 - How We Reconstruct This World from the Periphery
  1. Chapter 11. INDIGENEITY. Indigeneity from the Vantage Point of African Potentials and a Re-visioning of African Realities
  2. Edward K. Kirumira
  3. pp. 255-260
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  1. Chapter 12. INCOMPLETENESS. Cecil John Rhodes: 'The Complete Gentleman' of Imperial Dominance
  2. Francis B. Nyamnjoh
  3. pp. 261-286
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  1. Chapter 13. EVERYDAYNESS. Everyday Lifeworld as a Source of Creativity for African Potentials
  2. Motoji Matsuda
  3. pp. 287-304
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  1. Postscript. African Potentials and the Creation of an Alternative Future for Humanity
  2. Itaru Ohta, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Motoji Matsuda
  3. pp. 305-310
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 311-320
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  1. Back Cover
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