Publications

Books

2017

  •  Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books (With Odirin Omiegbe).

Review

  • Lynn Rose (American University of Iraq, Sulaimani), “Review of: Etieyibo, Edwin and Odirin Omiegbe. Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions and Remediation,” Disabilities Studies Quarterly, 40 (1 (2020), https://dsq sds.org/article/view/7440/5525.

2022

  • A Case for Environmental Justice, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Edited Books

2022

  • Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa)
  • African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective, Berlin: Springer (With Anke Graness, and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl).
  • Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature (With Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Ike Odimegwu).

2021

  • Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalisation and Education, Leiden: Brill (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa)

2020

  • Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield) (With Polycarp Ikuenobe).
  • 5     Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga, Vernon Press (With Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani).

2018

  •  Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  •  Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga: Vernon Press (With Jonathan O. Chimakonam).
  •  Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, London and New York: Routledge.
  •  Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.

Reviews Edited Books

Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum

Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy

  • Justin Sands (North West University) “Review of Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 2019, 38(3): 346-349.
  • Bruce Janz (University of Central Florida) 2018 “The Problem of Method in African Philosophy,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7(8): 1-7.
  • Anke Graness (University of Vienna) 2018, “African Philosophy and History,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7(10): 45-54.

2022

  •  Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa)
  • African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective, Berlin: Springer (With Anke Graness, and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl).
  • Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature (With Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Ike Odimegwu).
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Editorship (Journal Special Issues)

2022

  • Themes and Discourses in African Philosophy, South African Journal of Philosophy, June 2022, 41(2) (With John Sodiq Sanni and Mary Carman).

2021

  •  Identities and Exclusionism in Africa, Africa Review, 2021, 13(2) (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).
  • Politics and Decolonization in Africa, Africa Today, 2021 (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

2020

  • Identities, Exclusionism and Politics in Africa, African Studies, 2020, 79(4) (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

2016

  • Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa, South African Journal of Philosophy, December 2016, 35(4).
  • African Philosophy, Philosophia Africana, Summer/Fall 2016, 18(1) (With Jonathan Chimakonam)

Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

2022

  • “Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview,” Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 18(1 & 2):1-20

  • “African Metaphysics and Disabilities,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 41(2): 159-168, DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2022.2059986.

  • “Introduction: Themes and Discourses in African Philosophy,” South African Journal of

    Philosophy, 41(2):121-130, DOI:10.1080/02580136.2022.2098455 (With John SodiqSanni and Mary Carman).

2021

  • “People with Disabilities in the Margins in Nigeria,” Africa Review, 13(sup1): S17-S30, DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2020.1812040 (With Odirin Omiegbe).

  • “Why Decolonization of the Knowledge Curriculum in Africa?” Africa Today, Summer 67(4): 75-87.

  • “Politics and Decolonization in Africa: Theoretical Pointers and a Preamble,” Africa Today, Summer, 67(4): 3-8 (With Obvious Katsaura and Mucha Musemwa).

2020

  • “The ‘Two Democracies’ and Africa’s Burden,” African Studies, 79(4): 444-462, DOI: 10.1080/00020184.2020.1865790.
  • Introduction: Identities, Exclusionism and Politics in Africa,” African Studies, 79(4): 361-366, DOI:10.1080/00020184.2020.1866921 (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).
  • “Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria,” Afrika Focus, 33(1):59-81.
  • “Global Warming, Climate Change and Justice,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2020 20(1):50-76.

2019

  • “Silent Sufferers: Health Care Practitioners as Second Victims of Patient Safety Incidents,” Health Education and Care, 4: 1-4; doi: 10.15761/HEC.1000167 (With Brenda Kubheka, Shan Naidoo and Khulekani Moyo).
  • “In the House of Ethnophilosophy — Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-Perspective Conversation,”Filosofia Theoretical: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 8(2): 111-137, 2019 (With Elvis Imafidon, Bernard Matolino, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Ada Agada, Aribiah David Attoe and Fainos Mangena.
  • “Hobbes’ Geometrical Method in Natural and Political Philosophy,” The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy, 27: 39-49.
  • “Negotiating Pre-colonial History and Future Democracy: Examining Lauer’s Intervention on Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 20(1): 111-131(With Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani).

2018

  • “Moral Force and the It-It in Menkiti’s Normative Conception of Personhood,” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 7(2):47-59.

2017

  • “Substancehood in Locke, Spinoza, and Kant,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2017 18(1):43-59.
  • “Moral Education, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-inspired Communities,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 2017 36(2): 311-325.
  • “Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism and Distribution of Natural Resources,” Philosophical Papers,March 2017 46(1):139-162.
  • “Anthropocentricism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices: A Reply to Kai Horsthemke,” Journal of Animal Ethics 7(2):145-162.

2016

  • “African Philosophy: Past, Present and Future,” Philosophia Africana, Summer/Fall 2016 18(1):1-7 (With Jonathan Chimakonam).
  • “Religion, Culture, Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria,” African Journal of Disability 5(1):1-6 (With Odirin Omiegbe).
  • “Why Ought the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa be Africanized?” South African Journal of Philosophy (Special Issue, December 2016) 35(4): 404-417.
  • “African Philosophy and Proverbs: The Case of Logic in Urhobo Proverbs,” Philosophia Africana, Summer/Fall 2016 18(1):21-39.
  • “African Philosophy in the Eyes of the West,” Phronimon 2016 17(1):84-103.
  • “Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Task of Africanizing the Philosophy Curriculum,” South African Journal of Philosophy (Special Issue, December 2016) 35(4): 377-382.

2015

  • “Virtues, Freedom of Expression and Dissent, and Dēmokratía,” Social Action January 2 – March 2015, 65:1-16.
  • Descartes and Epistemology With or Without God, Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2015,16(1):65-86.

2014

  • “Themes in Brand Blanshard’s Coherence Theory of Truth,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2014, 15(1):11-24.
  • “Post-Modern Thinking and African Philosophy,” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3(1): 67-82.

2013

  •  “Bargaining and Agreement in Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(3): 221-233.
  • “The Case of Competency and Informed Consent,” Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics, S12:001. doi:10.4172/2155-9627.S12-001(http://www.omicsonline.org/the-case-of-competency-and-informed-consent-2155-9627.S12-001.pdf).
  • “Preliminary Reflections on the Privatization Policy in Nigeria,” African Journal of Economic Management Studies, 4(1):144-152.

2012

  • “Cartesian Circle, the Principle of Clarity and Distinctness, and God,” Lumina,23(1):81-93.
  • “Genetic Enhancement, Social Justice, and Welfare-oriented Patterns of Distribution,” Bioethics, 26(6):296-304.

2011

  • “The Self, Individual Moral Responsibility and Community,” Testamentum Imperium, 2011 3:1-26.
  • “The Ethical Dimension of Ubuntu and its Relationship to Environmental Sustainability,” Journal of African Environmental Ethics and Values 1(1):116-130.
  • “‘God is Dead!’ Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Some Reflections on Religiosity in Nigeria, ” The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy, 24(1): 1-17.
  • “An Outline of an Ecumenical Environmental Ethic,” The Trumpeter, 7(3):47-59.
  • “Ethics of Government Privatization in Nigeria,” Thought and Practice, 3(1):87-112.
  • “Privatization in Nigeria, Social Welfare, and the Obligation of Social Justice,” Journal of Economics, 2(1):37-44.
  • “Political Reparationists and the Moral Case for Reparations to Africa for Colonialism,” Africa Insight, 40(4):22-34.

2010

  • “Cartesian Hyperbolic Doubts and the ‘Painting Analogy’ in the First Meditation,”Diametros, 24: 45-57.

Book Chapters (Peer-reviewed and Invited)

2023

  • “Disharmony as a Political Vice,” in Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy, Uchenna Okeja (ed.), 119-137, London and New York: Routledge.

  • “Ujamaa,” in Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers, Sarah Flavel and Chiara Robbiano (Eds.), pp293-307, London: Bloomsbury.

2022

  •           “Introduction,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservativism: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, pp1-8, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

  •           “Democracy, Politics, and the Media in Nigeria,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservativism: Volume II:  Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, pp55-77, Brill: Leiden (With Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh).

  •           “Discourse on Restructuring in Nigeria,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservativism: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, pp130-145, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

  • “Racism, Colonialism and African Philosophy,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservativism: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, pp256-266, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

  •           “A Liberal World with or without Borders,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservativism: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration, pp351-263, Brill: Leiden (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).

  • “African Proverbs,” African Ethics: A Guide to Key Ideas, in Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues (Eds.), pp31-49, London: Bloomsbury.

  • “Logic,” in Changing Theory:  Concepts from the Global South, Dilip M. Menon, pp67-79, London: Routledge.

  • “Beyond Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy and in Defense of the Philosophical          Viability of Ethnophilosophy,” Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy, in Ada Agada, pp87-103, London: Springer Nature.

  • “Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-perspective       Conversation,” Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy, in Ada Agada, pp299-323, London: Springer Nature (With Elvis Imafidon,        Bernard Matolino, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Ada Agada, Aribiah David Attoe and         Fainos Mangena).

  • “Piety and Conduct: The Case of Confucianism and African Philosophy,” in African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective, pp33-46, Berlin: Springer (With Anke Graness, and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl).

  • “Introduction,” in Africa Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective, ppvii-xv, Berlin: Springer (With Anke Graness, and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl).

  • “On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics,” in Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo and Ike Odimegwu (eds.), pp125-143, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

  • “Introduction: The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy,” in Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo and Ike Odimegwu (eds.), pp.ix-xix, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

2021

  • “Introduction,” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalisation and Education, Edwin Etieyibo, Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa (eds.), pp. 1-7, Leiden: Brill (With Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa).
  • “Social Justice and Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria” in Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalisation and Education, Edwin Etieyibo, Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa (eds.), pp. 143-163, Leiden: Brill.

2020

  • “Introduction,” in Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe (eds), pp.1-9, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield) (With Polycarp Ikuenobe).
  • “The Sociality of Persons,” in Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe (eds.), pp.61-75, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield).
  • “Elderhood and Ancestorhood: Exemplar of a Person in African Community,” in Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe (eds.), pp.147-162, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield) (With Polycarp Ikuenobe).
  • “Menkiti as a Man of Community,” in Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe (eds.), pp.265-267, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield).
  • “Afterword,” in Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe (eds.), pp.265-267, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books (an offprint of Rowman & Littlefield) (With Polycarp Ikuenobe).
  • “Universal or Particular Logic and the Question of Logic in Setswana Proverbs,” in Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought, Jonathan O. Chimakonam (ed.), pp141-172, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga, Vernon Press, (With Keanu Koketso Mabalane).
  • “Introduction,” in Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani and Edwin Etieyibo (eds.), pp. vii-xi, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga, Vernon Press, (With Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani).
  • “The Consensus Project: The Debate So Far,” in Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani and Edwin Etieyibo (eds.), pp.1-17, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga, Vernon Press, (With Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani).
  • “African Consensual Democracy, Dissensus and Resistance,” in Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani and Edwin Etieyibo (eds.), pp.135-148, Wilmington, Delaware and Malaga, Vernon Press.
  • “African Moral Theory,” in Understanding Business and Ethics in the South African Context,” Mark Rathbone (ed.), pp.157-178, Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers, 2020.
  • “Justice, the ‘African Family’ and Obligations,” in Family Demography and Post- 2015 Development Agenda in Africa, Clifford O. Odimegwu (ed.), pp. 57-74, Basel, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.

2019

  • “Doing African Philosophy: Africans and non-Africans as African Philosophers, “in The Tenacity of Truthfulness: Philosophical Essays in Honour of Mogobe Bernard Ramose, Helen Lauer and Helen Yitah (eds.), pp. 287-306, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd, 2019.
  • “African Philosophy and Nonhuman Nature,” in Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy, George Hull (ed.), pp. 164-181, London: Routledge, 2019.

2018

  • “Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism and Distribution of Natural Resources,” in African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays, Uchenna Okeja (ed.), New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • “Introduction,” in Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.1-8, Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018.
  • “Between Contractualism and Contractarianism,” in Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp. 11-26, Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018.
  • “Moral Contractarianism, Moral Skepticism, and Agreement,” in Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.213-230, Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018.
  • “Ubuntu and Social Contract Theory,” in Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp. 343-365, Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (With Anthony Oritsegbubemi Oyowe), 2018.
  • “Introduction,” in Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.1-7, London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • “Afri-decolonisation, Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Task of an Africanised Philosophy Curriculum,” in Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.8-18, London and New York: Routledge,

2018

  • “Why Ought the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa be Africanised? In Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.89-102, London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • “Introduction,” in Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.) pp.1-9, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • “African Philosophy in History, Context, and Contemporary Times,” in Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.), pp.13-33, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • “The State of African Philosophy in Africa,” in Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy, Edwin Etieyibo (ed.) pp.71, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (With Jonathan O. Chimakonam), 2018.
  • “African Philosophy in the Court of Postmodernism,” in Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era, Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Edwin Etieyibo (eds.), pp.191-205, Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2018.

2017

  • Ubuntu and the Environment,” in The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy,A Afolayan, Adeshina and Falola, Toyin (eds.), pp.633-657, New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

2015

  • “Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World,” in African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance,Paul Ugor and Lord Mawuko-Yevugah (eds.), pp. 127-147, London: Routledge, 2015.
  • “The Question of Cultural Imperialism in African Philosophy,” in Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy, Jonathan O. Chimakonam (ed.), pp.147-170, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America,2015.

2012

  • “The Ontological Presuppositions in Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X’s Philosophies of Black Liberation” in A Study in African Socio-Political Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Muyiwa Falaiye, Antony Okeregbe Samuel B. Jegede, Dotun Ogunkoya (eds.), pp19-43, Lagos: University of Lagos Press, 2012.

2006

  • “Libertarianism and the Dichotomy between Positive and Negative Rights,” An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Patricia Hanna et al. (eds.), pp.403-419, Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2006.

Book Reviews

2015

  • “A Review of the New Africa – Dispatches from a Changing Continent” By Robert Press, Ogirisi: a New Journal of African Studies, 11, 2015, pp.209-216

2014

  • “Understanding Ethics”, 3rd edition (Torbjörn Tännsjö) Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, South African Journal of Philosophy, 33(3):375-376.
  • “The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa”(Robert Trent Vinson), African Historical Review, 46 (1): 98-101.2013
  • “The Founders: The Origins of the ANC and the Struggle for Democracy in South Africa” (André Odendaal), African Historical Review, 45 (2):142-144.

Other Publications

2015

  • “Africanizing the Philosophy Curricula in Universities in Africa”, Art Africa Digital (Becoming African) November, 2015.