An African Ethics of Personhood and BioethicsThis book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This book argues that this idea of personhood embodies an under explored conception of dignity, which accounts for it in terms of our capacity for the virtue of sympathy. It then proceeds to