Notes on Contributors
Olufunke Olufunsho Adegoke
is a Medical Sociologist and a trained Health Social Worker, whose area of interests are Maternal and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gerontology. She lectures at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in the Department of Sociology. She is a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Nigerian Anthropology and Sociology Association (NASA) and Nigerian Association of Social Workers (NASOW). An awardee of Teaching and Research Assistantship at the Postgraduate College, University of Ibadan and recipient of travel grants for international conferences. She has published both in local and international journals.
Adeshina Francis Akindutire
is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo state, Nigeria. His areas of research are: Criminology and Penology. He has many publications both in local and international journals. Also, he has co-authored four textbooks: Crime and Delinquency; Anthropology: An Introductory Text; Society and Health Illness and The Military in Developing Nations: A Sociological Approach. He is a member of many professional organization such as, the Forensic Sciences and Criminality Research, International Sociological Association, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, International Research and Capacity Building Foundation, Institute of Security.
Tafadzwa Chevo
is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Associate at Rhodes Universityâs Institute of Zimbabwean Studies. He obtained his PhD from Rhodes Universityâs Sociology Department and holds two Masters Degrees in Urban Social Development from Erasmus University and Sociology & Social Anthropology from the University of Zimbabwe. For his doctoral research, Tafadzwa conducted a diachronic and synchronic study of livelihood practices in low-income urban areas to obtain insights on agency, marginality and territorial stigmatisation. His research interests revolve around urban sociology, climate change, social policy, livelihoods and resilience building in rural and urban localities.
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
(PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. He taught at the University of Calabar, Nigeria for several years before moving to Pretoria. His teaching and research interests include African philosophy, logic, environmental ethics, philosophy of mind and various topics in postmodern/postcolonial/decolonial thought, poverty, digital identity and ethics. He aims to break new grounds in African philosophy by formulating a system that unveils new concepts and opens new vistas for thought (conversational philosophy); a method that can drive most theories in African philosophy and beyond (conversational thinking); and a system of logic that grounds them both (Ezumezu). His articles, chapters and books have appeared in several refereed journals and international presses.
Clement Chipenda
(PhD) is a Research Associate with the SARChI Chair in Social Policy at the University of South Africa. His research interests are in agrarian political economy, land reform, social policy, youth development, rural development, citizenship, food security and child rights. He is a holder of a DPhil in Sociology (University of South Africa), MSc in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe) and BSc Sociology (Hons) from the University of Zimbabwe). He has recently published articles in Africa Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies and African Journal of Economic and Management Studies.
Philip Akporduado Edema
(PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Augustine University, IIara-Epe, Lagos, Nigeria. His teaching, competence and research interest cover applied ethics, metaphysics, Karol Wojtylaâs personalism, philosophical anthropology, socio-political philosophy, African philosophy, Logic and philosophy of peace studies. He has published a number of papers both in journals and anthologies.
Maduka Enyimba
(PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar. He holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Education from Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto and a Masterâs degree in Socio-Political Thought. His teaching and research interests include, epistemology, African philosophy, environmental ethics, philosophy of education, development studies, philosophy of literature and philosophical anthropology. He has authored papers in a number of journals and presented papers at national and international conferences in some of these areas. He is a member of Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) and a Fellow of the Society for Research and Academic Excellence (FSR).
Edwin Etieyibo
(PhD) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). His areas of expertise are in ethics, political philosophy, African philosophy, social contract theories/and history of, history of philosophy, epistemology, early modern philosophy, Descartes, philosophy of law, applied ethics, African socio-political economy, philosophy of education and with children. He is co-author, editor and co-editor of several books including, Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation, Perspectives in Social Contract Theory; Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum; Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy; Ka Osi Sá» Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era; Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa, African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective. He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy, Chair of the Wits Philosophy Department and Secretary of the African Philosophy Society.
Ebenezer Babajide Ishola
is a Doctoral Student as well as an Academic Staff in the Department of Political Science, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research interests include thematic areas such as comparative politics and political economy, notably development studies. He is currently researching on regional cooperation for development as a development strategy for countries in the Global South.
Obvious Katsaura
(PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is an urban sociologist whose current research interests are in, and at the intersections of, the fields of transnational urbanism, transnational religiosity, religious urbanism, urban politics and urban violence. Some of his works have been published in the following journals: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Forum, Social Dynamics, Culture and Religion, African Identities, and Religion.
Peter Kwaja
(PhD) is a young and self-motivated academic in the Department of Educational Psychology of the College of Education, Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. Still in the process of becoming, he holds a Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) 1996 from KSCOE Ankpa Kogi State, Bachelor of Education (First Class Honours), Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees in Guidance and Counselling from the University of Nigeria in 2004, 2007 and 2014 respectively. He is certified by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria and a member of Texas Counselling Association (TCA) Austin, Texas, U.S.A. and Counselling Association of Nigeria (CASSON).
Muchaparara Musemwa
(PhD) is an Associate Professor of History and Head of the School of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a past President of the Southern African Historical Society; former editor of the South African Historical Journal; serves on the executive boards of directors of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organisations; European Society for Environmental History; and International Water History Association. He serves on the editorial boards of the Water History Journal and the Environment and History journal. He has published widely on environmental history and on water history and politics in Zimbabwe.
Bright Nkrumah
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He received his Dphil from the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, where he assessed the conditions under which citizens could mobilisation and trigger food reform. His research interest focuses on political contestation, climate change, food (in)security, youth dissent and democratisation.
Odirin Omiegbe
(PhD) lectures at the College of Education, Agbor, Nigeria and Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria. He holds a degree in Special Education from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and got his Doctoral degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He is a member of several professional associations and has presented papers in local and international conferences. He has published over 22 articles in journals and 5 books in special education, psychology, guidance and counselling, curriculum and other related disciplines. One of his most recent work is a coauthored book on disabilities, Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation.
Temitope J. Owolabi
is an academic member and Doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelorâs and Masterâs degrees in Sociology. His research interests cover Industrial Sociology, Demography, Development and Youth Studies. He has publish in local and international journals in these areas. He holds membership in several academic and professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM); Member, Institute of Strategic Management of Nigeria; Member, International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP); and Alumnus, Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University).
Adewale O. Owoseni
is a Doctoral Student and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests include African philosophy, philosophy of culture, and animal ethics. He is a recipient of short study research and conference grants such as CHCI Andrew Mellon Foundation, Arab Council of the Social Sciences, and China in Africa Africa in China Research Network (CAAC) among others. He has published a number of articles in various outlets such as Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies (2019), Springer Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (2018), Africology â JPAS (2016) and Caribbean Journal of Philosophy (2016).
Victor Adekunle Owoyomi
(MSc) is a Postgraduate Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lagos in Nigeria. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology and Psychology at Trinity University, City College, Lagos State in Nigeria. He is the chief consultant/project director of Princecrown Impact Management Consult, Lagos, Nigeria. He is a research fellow at Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), Brown University, Providence City, USA.
Madina Tlostanova
(PhD) is Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. She focuses on decoloniality, feminisms of the Global South, indigenous cosmologies, postsocialist sensibility. She has authored 10 monographs, over 280 articles, published in several languages. Her most recent books are Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence (Palgrave, 2017) and What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke UP, 2018). She recently coauthored a book with Tony Fry, A New Political Imagination. Making the Case (Routledge, November, 2020).
Israel Oberedjemurho Ugoma
(PhD) teaches psychology at Delta State University, Agbor affiliated campus, and biology to high School students in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelorâs degree in Biological Sciences, a Masterâs and Doctoral degrees in Educational Psychology. He is a member of the Nigeria Council of Educational Psychology (NCEP). His research focuses on learning and development of children towards the 21st century technologies where parents tend to be neurotic in hurrying their tender children to grow up quickly not minding natureâs clock on development and life skills acquisitions. He has several publications in local educational journals.
Jonah Uyieh
is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria â with specialisation in Comparative Development Studies. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos.