Ohio State University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1991
Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America
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    Plato’s Theory of Change
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (2): 39-48. 1994.
    Abstract ‘PLATO’S THEORY OF CHANGE: A POPPERIAN RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING DEMOCRACIES,’ The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 8 Winter/Spring 1994, No.2. This paper argues that in the midst of the unprecedented actual and potential socio-political and economic changes and transformations in our world toward the end of the 20th Century, the need for some philosophical grounding and guidance has become an imperative if only to avoid a global d…Read more
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    Plato’s Theory of Change
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (2): 39-48. 1994.
    In response to the rapid and global socio-economic and political transformations within traditional and emerging democracies toward the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century, the need for a credible philosophical theory providing some explanatory wisdom and guidance to avoid descent into chaos, this paper argues, has become an imperative. This paper examines the plausibility of utilizing Plato's Theory of Change for the purpose, and identifies with Karl Popper's critici…Read more
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    Review of The African Philosophy Reader, ed. P.H. Coetzee and A.P.J. Roux (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 6 (2): 441-448. 2005.
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    The Philosophy of Human Rights: The Akan Model
    In Björn Freter, Elvis Imafidon & Mpho Tshivhase (eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 329-345. 2023.
    This chapter is a response to the decades of Western skepticism and cynicism regarding the sustainability of democracy in Africa toward the end of the last century as most African countries experienced what political scientists term the third wave of democratization. Focusing on the human rights tradition in Africa, which is given as the main reason for the skepticism, this chapter argues to the contrary that not only is there a vibrant tradition of human rights in Africa with particular referen…Read more
  • Contemporary African Philosophy and Development: An Asset or a Liability?
    Dissertation, The Ohio State University. 1991.
    The existence of philosophy as an academic discipline in African universities has been jeopardized by a growing skepticism regarding the value of contemporary African philosophy. First, it is argued that the discipline is either a Western ideology or an instrument of that ideology for the entrenchment of Western imperialism in Africa. Further, it is argued that as a discipline philosophy is too removed from reality to be of any relevance towards development. In short, the discipline should be re…Read more