Jean-Chrysostome Kapumba Akenda

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Jean-Chrysostome Kapumba Akenda (born January 1, 1953 in Kianga, Congo ) is a Congolese philosopher and Catholic theologian.

Life

Akenda studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Mayidi / Democratic Republic of the Congo and at the Gregoriana in Rome from 1975 to 1981 .

From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a teacher of French, mathematics and philosophy at the seminar in Kinzambi / Congo. On August 15, 1982, he was ordained a priest in the diocese of Kikwit / Congo .

From 1985 he continued his studies in Marburg / Lahn and Düsseldorf, where he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on the diversity and objectivity of cultural forms under Ernst Cassirer . In this context, under the direction of Oswald Schwemmer in Berlin, he participated in the development of theories in cultural studies.

From 1990 to 1996 Akenda was visiting professor of philosophy of science at the Catholic faculties of Kinshasa . As a professor of philosophy of natural sciences, metaphysics and the history of science, he taught in Sankt Augustin at the Philosophikum in Kalonda. For five years he also served as president there.

He submitted his habilitation thesis in 2003 on the subject of cultural identity and intercultural communication in connection with the question of ethical universalism in the age of globalization . At the University of Bremen in the summer semester of 2004 he took part as a lecturer in the lectures on cultural philosophy and the seminars on African philosophy. Since then he has been a private lecturer at the University of Bremen.

Akenda has been a professor of philosophy ( metaphysics , epistemology of the natural and cultural sciences, general epistemology) at the Catholic faculties of Kinshasa since 1996 , from which the Catholic University of Congo (UCC) emerged in July 2009. From 2000 to 2009 he also worked there as administrative secretary general. He is visiting professor for philosophy of science and metaphysics at the University of Marien Ngouabi Brazzaville and in Gabon at the Omar Bongo University in Libreville . He participates in scientific teaching in Kimwenza and Kisangani .

Akenda is Director of the Regional Center for Fundamental Studies and Epistemology (CRECEM-Africa) at the University of Kikwit (UNIKIK), which became known nationwide in December 2010 through an international symposium on the scientific challenges for Africa. As director of CRECEM, he maintains academic cooperation with other universities in Africa (e.g. in Cameroon and Burkina Faso ), the West Indies University in Barbados in the Caribbean and the Edgar Morin Center for Complexity of Thought (“de la Pensée Complexe “) in Paris.

Since 1998 he has been visiting charitable partners in Germany on a regular basis, where he is given financial aid for Congolese students. As part of the Africa project of the Catholic parish Maria Frieden in Berlin, he directs the support of needy students in the Congo.

Literature (selection)

  • Diversity and objectivity of cultural forms. On the philosophy of science in cultural studies from Ernst Cassirer , Münster, LIT-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3590-1
  • On the way to an information culture: What information? Festschrift for Norbert Henrichs on the occasion of his 65th birthday, with contributions by Jean C. Kapumba Akenda, Wolfgang Rauch, Walther Umstätter and Thomas Schröder, Universität Düsseldorf University and State Library, 2000, ISBN 3-9807334-0-8
  • Cultural identity and intercultural communication. On the problem of ethical universalism in the age of globalization . Frankfurt am Main: IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2004, ISBN 3-88939-742-5
  • Philosophy and problems of christianism africain. Pour une philosophie chrétienne de la vie , as volume 34 of the “Recherches philosophiques africaines”, Kinshasa, Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa, 2006
  • Parish council of the community Maria Frieden (ed.): Your community Maria Frieden , Berlin, No. 306, July / August 2003, p. 9, see “Intercultural Week” and No. 334, February 2006, Berlin, p. 12, see Akenda's letter from the "Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa"
  • Les sciences between Nature and Culture. L'Unité dans la diversité . Paris, Dianoïa, 2011, ISBN 2-913126-72-3
  • The cultivation of transversal and transcultural virtues as a prerequisite for interculturality . In: Sarhan Dhouib & Andreas Jürgens (eds.), Paths in Philosophy. History - Knowledge - Law - Transculturality , Weilerswist, Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2011, pp. 388–402, ISBN 3-942393-09-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ While he is often referred to as "Professor Akenda" in Germany, you can officially find him on the website of the TU Chemnitz with the extended surname Kapumba Akenda: Archivlink ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; see. also the term "Prof. Akenda "in the lecture report of the Bremen Uni-Schlüssels, No. 80, November 2004, page 5, university-internal information in" Google search on uni-bremen.de "(both pages accessed on January 30, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-chemnitz.de
  2. ↑ There he acted as the rain of the Philosophical Seminary, cf. the Tyrolia source: http://www.tyrolia.at/list?autor=Jean+C++Kapumba+Akenda , accessed on March 20, 2013
  3. ↑ cf. University website: http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/mediapool/philosophie/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/KVV_05-06_06.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Academic year 2005–2006, accessed January 30, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.religion.uni-bremen.de  
  4. ↑ See greetings for the CRECEM foundation by Kahiudi C Mabana from Cave Hill Barbados on December 21, 2010, in: http://clavermabana.blogspot.de/2010/12/le-crecem-afrique-une-plate-forme-pour .html , accessed May 1, 2012
  5. ↑ cf. CRECEM in: http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201012100813.html and http://www.laprosperiteonline.net/show.php?id=6441&rubrique=Economie , both pages from 10 December 2010, accessed on 30 December 2010 January 2012
  6. ↑ For October 26, 2006 he was announced in the University of the West Indies (UWI) for an intercultural colloquium ("Special Events") with the topic Identités culturelles noires et interculturalité à l'ère de la mondialisation ; see archive link ( memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Page 3 (program) and page 17 (text), accessed on March 14, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cavehill.uwi.edu
  7. ↑ He himself received a printing grant for the publication of the habilitation thesis; see Cultural Identity ... , 2004, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Kapumba Akenda, Jean-Chrysostome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Congolese philosopher and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kianga, Congo