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L’AFRIQUE DU PRESENT ENTRE L’AURORE ET L’HORREUR

Submitted by NZEYIMANA on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 04:26

Symphorien Ntibagirirwa
Ethique et Société

Abstract:This editorial essay expresses the hopes and challenges of the African independence in terms of sentiments of pessimism and optimism. Neither of the two extremes can be held as absolute. Thus, the articles of this issue (Vol.9 Issue No.2) should be read against the background of a refusal of pessimism which sees horror and the refusal of exuberant and naïve optimism that dawns without perceiving the cloud of challenges to be faced. In between, the current challenges should be faced with the hopes built on a triad that should help Africa to leap into the far end of the future: 1) the priority of “being” over “having”,    2) the capital of  resilience and, 3) fostering education to nourish African anthropological and spiritual vigour as a condition of African renaissance.

Les pathologies de la corruption

Submitted by NZEYIMANA on Mon, 12/09/2013 - 21:17

LA CORRUPTION:
LA DENSITE DE NOTRE IDENTITE EN JEU
Symphorien Ntibagirirwa
Ethique & Société

Abstract :This editorial note attempts to frame the various articles published in this issue. It argues that, as a phenomenon which is as old as the human history and civilisation, corruption is characteristic of the human weak nature, or better, the fall, biblically speaking. As such, corruption deprives us of our ontological density as beings that aspire to what is good and right in so far as we are created in the image and resemblance of God. It puts a break to our sustained move to moral life as corrupt people tend to give priority to calculative rationality (which seeks short-term individual dividends) over comprehensive rationality open to sustainable results characteristic of the common good. It gives priority to individuality over sociality. This being the case, corruption is a universally evil phenomenon even in those societies where it is hardly observed or where it does not seem to have effects on the socio-political order and economic prosperity. It is within this framework that different analyses and reflections are introduced.

50 ans d’Indépendance en Afrique : Regard rétrospectif

Submitted by NZEYIMANA on Mon, 12/09/2013 - 21:14

DE L’IN-DEPEDANCE A L’INDEPENDANCE :  QUELLE ROUTE ET QUELLES CONDITIONS ?
Symphorien Ntibagirirwa
Ethique et Société

Abstract: This editorial note analyses the concept of independence and gives a framework within which various contributions published in the present issue could be understood. It argues that African independence is never acquired once for all. Instead, it must be seen as a process of Africans’ self-transcendence. In this process, three requirements have to be fulfilled, namely: a determined and minded leadership, a new engagement of the African intellectuals and a renewed African conscience. In this framework, various articles of this issue are introduced.

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