Table of Contents
Part I: Conceptions of Beauty in African Thought
Chapter 1: The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation
Diana-Abasi Ibanga
Chapter 2: We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition
Pius Mosima, and Nelson Shang
Chapter 3: African Ethics: Human Being is Beautiful
Stanley Uche Anozie
Part II: Development in Africa: Contested Terrains
Chapter 4: African Metaphysics as a Basis of African Human and Economic Development
Wilfred Lajul
Chapter 5: Ubuntu Humanity and Community Building for Human Growth: Sustainable Development in Africa’s Cultural Depiction
Frans Dokman
Chapter 6: Ubuntu Humanity and Sustainable Development Goals
Dorine E. van Norren
Chapter 7: Replacing Development: An Afro-Communal Approach to Distributive Justice
Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 8: Understanding Genuine Development: African Contexts
Luke Amadi
Part III: African Views of Development: Cultural and Spiritual Aspects
Chapter 9: A Reconsideration of African Spirituality in Agricultural Development Projects: Traditional Ecological Knowledge from Dagara Elders in Koro, Ghana
Birgit Boogaard, Bernard Yangmaadome Guri, David Ludwig, Daniel Banuoku
Chapter 10: Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development
Angela Roothaan
Chapter 11: Omolúàbí: Understanding the Yorùbá’s Moral Obligations in Human Well-being and its Implications for Political Participation in Nigeria - Insights from Ikorodu
Oladosu Mudasiru Surajudeen, Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi and Abiodun Fatai
Chapter 12: Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction
Aderemi Oladele
