Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola is a feminist African philosopher who has extensive experience of over ten years in teaching and research at the university level. She received her PhD from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2014 with a dissertation on A Maternal Feminist Critique of John Locke’s Contractarian Egalitarianism and was a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her scholarly interests include African philosophy/Africana philosophy, feminist philosophy, philosophy of gender, philosophy of race, political philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and African studies (broadly construed). She is particularly interested in significantly contributing to the training of the next generation of philosophers and African/Africana scholars, who are adequately equipped to critically analyze and engage with issues of fundamental significance required for addressing perennial and contemporary political, moral, economic, existential, and epistemic challenges.

Dr. Ipadeola is currently a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World at the University of Hildesheim. She is the author of Feminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference (Routledge, 2023). Her latest publication is “Omoluabi Feminism: Political Leadership through an African Lens”, in: Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, 2024.

“Omoluabi Feminism: Political Leadership through an African Lens,” in: Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh, Eds., Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

“An African Feminist Interrogation of Existential Epistemology: Women as the Other of the Other in (Post)Colonial Africa,” in: Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivashe, and Bjoern Freter, Eds., Handbook of African Philosophy, New York: Springer Publishing, 2023.

“Ẹlẹ́ẹ̀rí (Testifier) as Ọmọlúàbí (Virtuous Person): The Interface of Epistemic Justification and Virtue Ethics in an African Culture,” in: Peter Aloysius Ikhane and Isaac E. Ukpokolo, Eds., African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge, London: Routledge, 2023.

“Àgbájọ Ọwọ́: An African Moral Theory of Survival in an Age of COVID-19,” East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2021, pp. 12-21.

“Ìdàgbàsókè: An African Notion of Organic Development Ethics,” Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 37, Issue 1: 98-115, 2021.

“Women and the Project of Decolonization in Contemporary Africa: Are Gender Considerations de Rigueur?,” Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2020, pp. 43-58.

“The Subaltern in Africa’s Political Space: African Political Philosophy and the Mirror of Gender,” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 48, No 4: 391-407, 2017.

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