A REVIEW OF KANU‟S “IGWEBUIKE AS THE CONSUMATE FOUNDATION OF AFRICAN BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLES”

Résumé

Prof. Kanu published this paper in 2016. It remains a work of great breakthrough in African Bioethics at the moment when western civilization seems to have coloured all we may think of with regard to bioethical engagements. In this masterpiece, some concepts are very prominent especially Bioethics. Bioethics is a compound word with Bios meaning life and ethics which is the philosophical study of morality and or value. Ethics, along with Logic, Metaphysics and Epistemology, is one of the main branches of Philosophy. Further division of Ethics has it as Meta-ethics, Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology and Bioethics. Bioethics, therefore, is the philosophical appreciation of morality and its application on life. Hence, it is the ethics of medical and biological research. It is the morality governing the practice of medical enquiry and biological investigations. Our consideration in this review in accordance with the paper at hand is African Bioethics in contraposition with Western Bioethics.