Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a counterpoint to the necropolitics that dominates African political practice. For practitioners and analysts for whom Africans and their polities are caught in the TINA (There Is No Alternative) syndrome, this book offers inspiration for an alternative to the current necropolitics. Because the book’s thesis is an unreserved celebration of lifemaking, it identifies collective human flourishing as essential to politics.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Lifemaking: Poetics of Politics in Traditional Africa
2. The Philosophy of King Amakiri: Kalabari as a Political Narrative
3.
Amatemeso, Otherness, and Violence
4. Chiefs: Subjects to Freedom
5. Sediments of Life: On
Poiesis of Social Immortality
6. The Excellent Self: Existential End Goal of Lifemaking
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His previous books include
The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective, also published by SUNY Press, and
Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous.
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