A frican Bioethics vs. Healthcare Ethics in A frica: A Critique of G odfrey T angwa

It is nearly two decades now since the publication of G odfrey T angwa's article, ‘Bioethics: A frican Perspective’, without a critical review. His article is important because sequel to its publication in Bioethics, the idea of ‘ A frican bioethics’ started gaining some attention in the international bioethics literature. This paper breaks this relative silence by critically examining T angwa's claim on the existence of A frican bioethics. Employing conceptual and critical methods, this paper argues that T angwa's account of A frican bioethics has some conceptual, methodic and substantive difficulties, which altogether do not justify the idea of A frican bioethics, at least for now. Contra T angwa, this article establishes that while A frican bioethics remains a future possibility, it is more cogent that current efforts in the name of ‘ A frican bioethics’ be primarily re‐intensified towards ‘Healthcare ethics in A frica’.