PUBLICATIONS
Academic Writings:
African Communitarian Ethics: An Externalist Justification for Altruism. (2024). The Philosophical Forum.
Proto-History: Unending Intuitions. (2024). Metaphilosophy.
Public Philosophy Writings:
African Philosophy Cannot Be a Thing. (2024). The Republic.
The Case for Affirmative Action. (2023). The Republic.
What did the anti-affirmative action group get wrong about affirmative action? (2023). American Philosophical Association Blog.
Selected Presentations:
Department of Philosophy Seminal Lecture Series, University of Ibadan (Invited)
Presented Paper: African Communitarianism: An Externalist Justification of Altruism
American Philosophical Association (APA) 2023 Central Division Meeting, Denver
Presented Paper: Marxist Critique of Liberal Egalitarianism
(Commentary on "Alternatives to Capitalism: Liberal Egalitarianism or Marxism" by Edward Greetis)
Other Writings (selections):
Essays:
Living in America, Leaving Nigeria: Notes on the House that Needs Saving, The Republic, December 2023
The Personal is also Political, Olongo Africa, February 2023
I exposit a moral failure in liberal democracy that is often masked with liberal values of individual rights and the right to vote.
On the Ephemerality Of Personal Identity, Olongo Africa, July 2022
An essay about how identity isn’t a static element of a person’s existence but an ever-changing and incorporeal—though based on the corporeal elements in the world—core element of one’s authenticity, an existential mode that is achieved through the choices one makes.
Covid-19 and the Loose Logic of Religion, Opinion Nigeria, May 2021
How to Live in Africa s an African, Punocracy, February 2021
Interviews:
Elite Capture and the Retrograde of Social Justice, Africa in Dialogue, May 2022
Olufemi O. Taiwo, professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, and I had a conversation about elite capture, our complex social world, and how much does one, granted his or her freedom, actually need the understanding and recognition of other people?
Unravelling Africa’s History, Africa in Dialogue, July 2022
British-Africans Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It’s a Continent, and I had a conversation about how world history centers on and echoes Western history and how their book and podcast bring Africa’s history to unintentional and intentional (the West) skeptics.
Poems:
Bullet as Lineage, Barren Magazine, August 2021
A poem about the displacement of children during wars.
For the Foreign Friend Who Asked Me Why Africans Write Sad Poems, Icefloepress, June 2021
A comparative poem on social well-being and social ill-being.
Transatlantic [Heartbreak] Love Poem, Pithead Chapel, June 2021
"All love stories are frustration stories.”
The World was Beautiful, Perhappened Magazine, May 2020
A poem about biodiversity.
This Agony Mother Feels (shortlisted for the 2018 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize - 4th of 464 entries), Nantygreens, March 2019
God and my Curiosity, Kalahari Review, February 2019
Two poems about God, His being, and nothingness.