[New Entry by Dismas Masolo on September 24, 2026.]
Shaaban’s exposition of African virtue ethics precedes the works of African theologians who mounted the “African traditional religions” movement as a school of thought in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, also called Vatican II (1962 – 65). In a crucial difference from those theologians who largely adopted the work of European anthropologists in pursuit of “proof” for the existence of indigenous African religious beliefs as close to those of Christianity, Shaaban developed his own philosophical explanations…

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