Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development

Introduction

The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation / Diana-Abasi Ibanga

We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition / Pius Mosima, and Nelson Shang

African Ethics: Human Being is Beautiful / Stanley Uche Anozie

African Metaphysics as a Basis of African Human and Economic Development / Wilfred Lajul

Ubuntu Humanity and Community Building for Human Growth: Sustainable Development in Africa's Cultural Depiction / Frans Dokman

Ubuntu Humanity and Sustainable Development Goals / Dorine E. van Norren

Replacing Development: An Afro-Communal Approach to Distributive Justice / Thaddeus Metz

Understanding Genuine Development: African Contexts / Luke Amadi

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

Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development / Angela Roothaan

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

Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction / Aderemi Oladele.