Browsing by Author "Kizito, Michael George"

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De- ethnicisation, de-masculinisation and re-vitalization of the ubuntu paradigm for sustainable african development
(Unpublished work, 2023-09) Kizito, Michael George
Africa is in dire need of sustainable endogenous development perspectives geared at addressing the plethora of development challenges on the continent. This is because the current development ideologies reinforced in Africa, such as nee-liberalism, are racist, imperialistic, and imbued with paternalism and white saviourism. Intrinsic development paradigms for African Development, however, ought to be cognizant of the existential peculiarities in Contemporary Africa, such as 'White Africanisation' and embracing postmodern ethos. This paper uses critical theory, de-colonial and post-colonial criticism to argue that despite the volatile and recalcitrant critiques of the Ubuntu African paradigm, the framework has remained indispensable in African Development debates. The paper contends that the Ubuntu model for human well-being ought to be deconstructed and resituated to align with the pertinent development sustainabilities such as ethical sustainability, gender sustainability, ecological sustainability, and human rights sustainability.
From methodological authoritarianism to epistemic realism : multidisciplinary research paradigms and the post-modern turn
(E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS), 2024-12-04) Kizito, Michael George
The 20th century was characterized by a radical paradigm shift from modernism to postmodernism. Postmodernism rejected the stances of objectivism, universalism and the construction of meta-narratives that were evident in the modern epoch. Postmodernism re-affirms subjectivism, perspectivism and particularism in knowledge attribution, acquisition and justification. Postmodernism therefore dethrones positivism, radical empiricism and all their objectivistic scientific edifices. Post-modernism has its roots in post-colonialism, de-colonialism and the agitations for racial and gender justice. This academic masterpiece used critical historical analysis, critical hermeneutics, decolonial and postcolonial criticism to situate postmodernism as an emancipatory philosophy of method that safeguards marginalized modes of knowledge in the South from the epistemicide of Western Positivism. The paper analytically illuminated that postmodern epistemological ethos leads to the emergence of post-positivism in the natural sciences and interpretivism in the humanities and social sciences by propagating deconstructionist and emancipatory multi-disciplinary methodologies such as critical discourse analysis, phenomenological interpretation, critical race theory and critical gender theory. This paper further argued that multi-disciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are inevitable constellations of the eminent emergency of the postmodern epoch. The paper adds to knowledge by painstakingly contending that postmodernism entrenches situated knowledge and multidisciplinary methodologies that are equally valid, reliable, cogent and credible.