African Bioethics

A cursory glance at the historical evolution of bioethics as a discipline, reveals the emergence of a couple of trends, such as the advent of the quest for regional characterization, giving birth to culturally rooted bioethical perspectives. Majority of existing studies in this area of scholarship presents bioethics as though it were a field of enquiry that is the prerogative of the Western world, dominated by Western idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. There is also the perspective that African bioethics is a myth; a perspective that is furthered by ideological race classification, the slave trade and colonialism. Kanu, in this book, therefore, challenges this perspective, arguing for the existence of an African bioethics, for the enhancement of African authenticity and identity.