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When Vulgarism Comes through Popular music: An Investigation of Slackness in Zimdancehall Music 通俗音乐中的粗俗:津丹斯霍尔音乐的松弛性考察

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.8

W. Maguraushe

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Limited Communitarianism and the Merit of Afro-communitarian Rejectionism 有限的社群主义与非洲社群主义拒绝主义的优点

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.4

Tosin Adeate

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Contextualizing Language as a Tool of Value Degeneration: A Sociolinguistic Study of Language of Corruption in Nigeria 语境化语言作为价值堕落的工具:尼日利亚腐败语言的社会语言学研究

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.7

U. Oboko

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Establishing Connections with the Ancestors through Umxhentso Dance 通过umxhenso舞蹈与祖先建立联系

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.5

B. Izu, A. D. de Villiers

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Post-development Thesis and African Intercultural Theory of Development 后发展理论与非洲跨文化发展理论

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.2

P. Idachaba, Paul T. Haaga

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Germline Gene Editing Applications and the Afro-communitarian Ubuntu Philosophy 生殖系基因编辑应用和非洲社群主义的Ubuntu哲学

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.1

Cornelius Ewuoso

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Hegel Against Hegel and His Lumbering of Reason on the African Race 黑格尔对黑格尔及其在非洲种族问题上的笨拙理性

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.6

N. U. Ukwamedua

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Techno-Colonialism, and the Sub-Saharan Africa Response 第四次工业革命、技术殖民主义和撒哈拉以南非洲应对

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.3

Edmund Terem Ugar

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Conquest and Law as a Eurocentric enterprise: An Azanian philosophical critique of legal epistemic violence in “South Africa” 作为欧洲中心事业的征服与法律:对“南非”法律认知暴力的阿扎尼亚哲学批判

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v12i1.9

Masilo Lepuru

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The Ontological Status of Yahweh and the Existence of the Thing we call God 耶和华的本体论地位和我们称之为上帝的东西的存在

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i4.9s

Lerato Mokoena

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