African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics

Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Léocadie Lushombo is Assistant Professor in Theological Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of the Congo.

• 1. Introduction: Ethics and Philosophy, African Women’s Perspective.- Part I Ethics, African Philosophy and Liberation.- 2. Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics.- 3. “A Beautiful Black Pearl Bead”: Dube’s Poetics of Spiritual Esthetics of Dark Luminosity.- 4. Ethics and Values of Mercy A. Oduyoye’s Theology of Liberation.- 5. Social Motherhood and Masculinization of the Church in Bernadette Mbuy-Beya’s Ethics and Philosophical Anthropology.- 6.- The Ethics of Liberation of Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde.- Part II Founding Matriarchs on African Communal Philosophy and Environmental Ethics.- 7. Beyond Isirika: Problematizing and Theorizing Musimbi Kanyoro’s Communal Ethics.- 8. Hannah Kinoti: African Religion, Community Consciousness, and Virtue Ethics.- 9. Ethics, Gender, and Philosophy of Puleng LenkaBula.- 10. Ethics and Philosophy of Anne Nasimiyu Wasike.- 11. Environmental Ethics of African Women Theologians.- Part III Ethics of Reading for Liberation and Biblical Interpretation.- 12. Unveiling Hidden Narratives: Musa Dube’s Postcolonial Feminist Lens on Biblical Studies.- 13. Bosadi Hermeneutics: Mapping Masenya’s Journey of Collisions and Relationships in Biblical Interpretation.- 14. Ethical Readings of Elna Mouton: Exploring Gender, Household Code, and Ethos in New Testament Writings.- 15. Afterword: A Flame Blazes in the Darkness!.