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The Death Penalty from an African Perspective: Views from Zimbabwean and Nigerian Philosophers

The Death Penalty from an African Perspective: Views from Zimbabwean and Nigerian Philosophers

Mangena, Fainos
Chimakonam, Jonathan O.

Hardcover

Series: Vernon Philosophy

PhilosophyCriminology

ISBN10: 1622732626
ISBN13: 9781622732623
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is about an African philosophical examination of the death penalty debate. In a 21st century world where the notion of human right is primed, this book considers the question of the death penalty in two sub-Saharan African countries namely, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, notorious for their poor human right records. This edited collection comprises of 11 essays from Zimbabwean and Nigerian philosophers. As opinions continue to divide over the retention or abolition of the death penalty, these African philosophers attempt to localise this debate by raising the following questions: What is the meaning of life in the African place? Is it proper to take the human life under any guise at all? Who has the right to take the human life? Can the death penalty be justified on the bases of African cultures? Why should it be abolished? Why should it be retained? Indeed, this book is the first of its kind to engage the tumultuous issue of capital punishment in the postcolonial Africa and from the African philosophical point of view.

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