Kahiudi Claver Mabana is a Senior Lecturer in Francophone and African Literatures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He has published four books: L’univers mythique de Tchicaya U Tam'si à travers son œuvre en prose (1998), Des Transpositions francophones du mythe de Chaka (2002), Du mythe à la littérature: Une lecture de textes africains et caribéens (2013) and Ecritures en situation postcoloniale: Francophonies périphériques (2013). He has co-edited three collections and published numerous articles in international academic journals and collective books. His research interests are French, Francophone and African Literatures, Philosophy and Mythopoetics.
Cheikh Moctar Ba is a Professor of Philosophy at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. He authored, among other works, Étude comparative entre les cosmogonies grecques et Africaines, and La conscience historique Africaine.
Issiaka-Prosper Lalèyê holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1970) and a PhD in human arts and sciences from the University of Paris V (1988). He is Professor of Epistemology and Anthropology at the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Senegal; Member of the National Academy of the Sciences and Techniques of Senegal; Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms of Senegal. He has published 4 volumes and is the author of about 100 articles and papers. He works as an expert for UNESCO and ISESCO.
Mogobe Bernard Ramose is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Africa. His fields of interests include theoretical and applied ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of liberation, African philosophy, and philosophy of international relations.
Munyaradzi Felix Murove is Deputy Head of the School of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has currently published a book titled African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. It is the first anthology on African Ethics. His areas of interest are in African Ethics, Business Ethics, Comparative and Applied Ethics. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on Ethics and is currently writing a book on African Ethics: Approaches and Perspectives with the hope of making African ethics part and parcel of the curriculum at the University.
Gail M. Presbey is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Detroit Mercy. Her areas of expertise are social and political philosophy as well as philosophy of nonviolence and cross-cultural philosophy. She has done research in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and India, having received two J. William Fulbright grants. Her most recent edited work is Philosophical Perspectives on the ‘War on Terrorism’. She has a co-edited textbook, The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader, and a co-edited book, Thought and Practice in African Philosophy. She has over fifty articles and book chapters published. She also has a longstanding involvement in Peace and Justice Studies, and is past Executive Director and President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
Messay Kebede is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton, Ohio. He obtained his PhD from the University of Grenoble in France. He has previously taught philosophy at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). He is the author of five books, Meaning and Development (1994), Survival and Modernization (1999), and Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization (2004), Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia (2008), and Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution (2011). He has also published numerous articles.
Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut, works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. He is the author of Africana Philosophy and Black Existentialism: An Introduction to Africana Existential Thought. He is also currently EuroPhilosophy Professor at Toulouse University in France and the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Clevis Headley, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University is Director of the Masters in Liberal Studies, and Director of Ethnic Studies. His areas of specialization include Frege, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Pragmatism, Africana Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Race Theory.
Nkolo Foé is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department of Philosophy of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Yaoundé 1. Former researcher at the Institut des Sciences du Cameroun, Expert Scientific Collaborator of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for the Pôle d’Excellence Régional du Rwanda (2004-2006), he was also a professor and researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Nantes (2006) and Associate Director of Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2008).
J. Obi Oguejiofor is Professor of Philosophy and current Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. He was formerly the President of Nigerian Philosophical Association as well as the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria (CATHAN). Among his publications are: Has Bertrand Russell Solved the Problem of Perception, The Philosophical Significance of Immortality in Thomas Aquinas, Philosophy and African Predicament. He is the current president of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS).
Sanya Osha is a research fellow, The DST-NRF CoE in Scientometrics and STI Policy in the Institute for Economic Research in Innovation at Tshwane University of Technology and fellow of Africa Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands. His previous work has appeared in Transition, Socialism and Democracy, Research in African Literatures, QUEST: An African Journal of Philosophy, Africa Review of Books and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction. In 2010, a series of his articles on knowledge appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. His the author of Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (2005), Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow: Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement (2007) Postethnophilosophy (2011) and African Postcolonial Modernity: Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus (2014).
Tanella Suzanne Boni was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She studied in Toulouse, France, then at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne, where she obtained her PhD. She is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan, has chaired the Association of Ivory Coast Writers from 1991 to 1997, and is a member of the World Academy of Poetry. She is the author of La diversité du monde, Réflexions sur l’écriture et les problèmes de notre temps (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2010), and Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? (Paris, Karthala, 2011).
Kristie Dotson is an assistant professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Memphis (2008) and her areas of researches include the epistemology of testimony, African American philosophy (particularly black feminism), Feminist Philosophy (particularly feminist epistemology), and Philosophy and Race. She edited with Robert Bernasconi a series of books entitled Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation. Her most recent work involves examining how to track practices of silencing ‘on the ground’ and investigating how the giving and receiving testimony, as an epistemic faculty, serves as a core practice in the creation and maintenance of social oppression.
Paulo Vinicíus Baptista Da Silva, Professor of the Afro-Brazilian Studies Center of the Federal University of Paraná, has a Bachelor degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Paraná (1991), a Masters in Education from the Federal University of Paraná and a PhD in Psychology with a focus in Social Psychology from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2005). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Education and coordinator of the Working Group on Education and Race Relations. His research interests include race relations, racism, affirmative action policies and the construction of childhood policies. Among his numerous publications, he has recently coauthored the article ‘Fighting Sexism in Textbooks: Agenda Construction and its Critics’ (2008) and contributed the article ‘Black and White people in the Brazilian media: Racist discourse and practices of resistance’ to the collection Racism and discourse in Latin America (2009).
