Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology

In the words of Zimbabwean novelist Chenjerai Hove, Africans “have neither catalogued nature nor pinned it down and preserved it in formaldehyde. We see it differently and speak to and about it differently.”

This presentation examines the validity of this statement and also the contribution African indigenous knowledge systems are seen to make in response to local as well as global environmental problems and dilemmas.

Meet the speaker

Kai Horsthemke is a Visiting Professor in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of four monographs, The Moral Status and Rights of Animals (2010), Animals and African Ethics (2015),

Animal Rights Education (2018), and Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Considerations (2021). Together with Peggy Siyakwazi, Elizabeth Walton and Charl Wolhuter, he co-edited the first two editions of Education Studies (2013 and 2016, respectively). His new book, The Meaning of Death, will be published in 2023 by Lexington Books.

Contact

Email: cgcp@soas.ac.uk