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Magic in an African Context
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Notes
1
The issues considered in this paper are analysed in far greater depth in U. Okeja,
‘An African Context of the Belief in Witchcraft and Magic’, Rational Magic, S.E.
Hendrix and B. Feltham (eds), Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, 2011.
2
B. Hallen and J.O. Sodipo, Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic
Experiments in African Philosophy, London, 1986, p. 98.
3
K. Wiredu, Cultural Universals and Particulars, Indianapolis, 1996, p. 57.
4
R. Dukes (ed), An Essay on Magic, London, 2000, p. 1.
5
Ibid., p. 20.
6
Ibid., p. 22.
7
The Sun Newspaper (Nigeria), Available at: http://www.sunnewsonline.com,
Viewed on 10.11.2009.
Bibliography
Wiredu, K., Cultural Universals and Particulars. Indianapolis, 1996.
Dukes, R. (ed), An Essay on Magic. London, 2000.
Hallen, B. & Sodipo, J.O., Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraf: Analytic Experiments
in African Philosophy. London, 1986.
The Sun News Paper, 10 November 2009.
Uchenna Okeja has a bachelor of philosophy degree (B. Phil) from Urban
University, Rome, Italy, a Diploma (equivalent to BA and MA) in Theology from
theologische Fakultät, Fulda, Germany and an MA in International Management
from the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Germany. He recently concluded
work on his PhD dissertation at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was awarded a
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation fellowship for his dissertation. Though primarily
interdisciplinary in his research, his main research focus is in the areas of political
and social philosophy, epistemology of religious beliefs, postcolonial African
philosophy, and applied ethics.