External Research Profile
Degrees Held
- Phd (Philosophy) UKZN 2009
NRF Rating
- Y1 (2015)
Research Interests
- African philosophy
- Race
Selected Publications
Books
Recent Publications
Guest Editorial
Books
- 2014. Personhood in African Philosophy.
Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications
Recent Publications
- “Rationality and Consensus in Kwasi Wiredu’s Traditional African Polities” Theoria (146) 2016
- The Role of non-Political Institutions in Entrenching Democracy in Odimegwu, I.; Asiegbu, M.F.; Izunwa, M.O (eds). Celebrating the Genius of J. Obi Oguejiofor: Discourses in African Philosophy. Awka: FAB Education Books 2015
- “Universalism and African Philosophy” South African Journal of Philosophy (34:4) 2015
- “The place of South African philosophy in the future of South African philosophy” Social Dynamics (41:3) 2015
- “Aristotelian Eudaimonia and African Communitarianism” Phronimon (16:1) 2015
- “A Response to Metz’s Reply on the End of Ubuntu” South African Journal of Philosophy (34:2) 2015
- “Exorcising the Communitarian Ghost: D.A. Masolo’s Contribution” Quest (25:1-2) 2014
- “There is a racist on my stoep and he is black”: A philosophical analysis of black racism in post-apartheid South Africa” Alternation 2013
- “Exorcising the Communitarian Ghost: D.A. Masolo’s Contribution” Quest 2013
- “The End of Ubuntu” South African Journal of Philosophy (32:2) 2013 (co-authored with Kwindingwi, W.)
- “The Nature of Opposition in Kwasi Wiredu’s Democracy by Consensus” African Studies (72:1) 2013
- “Democracy, Consensus and Africa: An Investigation into Consensual Democracy’s Contribution to African Political Philosophy” Philosophia Africana (14:2) 2012
- Abantu and their Ethic in the Face of AIDS in Walmsley, G. (ed). African Philosophy and the Future of Africa: South African Philosophical Studies, III. Wahsington D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy 2011
- “The (Mal)Function of ‘it’ in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s Normative Account of Personhood” African Studies Quartely vol 12 (4) 2011
- “Tempels’ Philosophical Racialism” South African Journal of Philosophy 2011 vol 30 (3) 2011
- “Quandaries of Legitimacy” Theoria number 123 June 2010
- “Radicals versus Moderates: A Critique of Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism” South African Journal of Philosophy vol 28 (2) 2009
- “A Response to Eze’s Critique of Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy” South African Journal of Philosophy vol 28 (1) 2009
Guest Editorial
- Special Issue of Journal on
African Philosophy entitled “Reconciliation in Postcolonial Africa” (No. 7)
2013