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25The Epistemology of Womanhood: Ignored Contentions among Igbo Women of Eastern NigeriaThought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 5 (2): 57-79. 2013.Feminists all over the world are united in their contentions on many fronts such as societal norms and conditions that militate against a woman’s expression of her rights and abilities. In as many fronts, they have gained grounds, if not outright victories. However, we observe that among the Igbo women of Eastern Nigeria there is a front which accounts for substantial female deprivation, and which feminists have consistently passed over in their contentions, namely, the feminine cognition also k…Read more
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2Addressing Uduma's Africanness of a Philosophy Question and Shifting the Paradigm from Metaphilosophy to Conversational PhilosophyFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 4 (1): 33-50. 2015.This conversation is inspired by Uduma O. Uduma’s essay entitled “The Question of the ‘African’ in African Philosophy: In search of a Criterion for the Africanness of a Philosophy”. In this essay, Uduma coined what he calls “the Africanness of a Philosophy Question which consists in the ultimate criterion for African philosophy. He was not the first to dwell on the Africanness issue in African philosophy but he was the first, to my knowledge, to christen it as such. Before Uduma framed the quest…Read more
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30Introducing African science: Systematic and Philosophical ApproachAuthor House. 2012.(western) science as ethno-science, suggesting it is the local knowledge system of the west but imposed on other cultures (45). Supporting this view Alozie who classified African science into functional, structural and historical (6-19) maintains ...
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12011Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and ReligionsFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3 (1): 1-167. 2014.
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123African philosophy and global epistemic injusticeJournal of Global Ethics 13 (2): 120-137. 2017.In this paper, I consider how the discourse on global epistemic justice might be approached differently if some contributions from the African philosophical place are taken seriously. To be specific, I argue that the debate on global justice broadly has not been global. I cite as an example, the exclusion or marginalisation of African philosophy, what it has contributed and what it may yet contribute to the global epistemic edifice. I point out that this exclusion is a case of epistemic injustic…Read more
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19Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy (edited book)Upa. 2014.That African philosophy began with frustration and not with wonder as it is in Western tradition is a radical statement with far-reaching implications. Implications that are, as challenging as they are intellectually refreshing thus reinvigorating interest in the African discourse. As the discipline of African philosophy vitiated in the post debate disillusionment met with a new generation critical fire; methodic, technical and theoretic demands and issues unresolved in the old order surface. Ol…Read more
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80History of African PhilosophyInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.History of African Philosophy This article traces the history of systematic African philosophy from the early 1920s to date. In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates suggests that philosophy begins with wonder. Aristotle agreed. However, recent research shows that wonder may have different subsets. If that is the case, which specific subset of wonder inspired the beginning of … Continue reading History of African Philosophy →
Jonathan O Chimakonam
University of Pretoria
University of Calabar
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University of CalabarRegular Faculty