Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob
Short-Term Fellow
March 2025
Bio
Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob is a professor of philosophy at the University of Calabar, Nigeria, specializing in political philosophy, decolonial theory, intercultural philosophy, African philosophy, logic, and critical thinking. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy. She completed her postdoctoral research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale University, USA. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where she remains a research associate. She also participated in the Erasmus+ Mundus Mobility Exchange Programme (2024–2025) at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Oluwagbemi-Jacob has an extensive research and publishing record, with numerous articles covering political philosophy, logic, (de-)coloniality, intercultural philosophy, African philosophy, and gender issues. She is the author of Rudiments of Logic (2nd edition, 2019) and the Editor-in-Chief of FAHSANU Journal: Journal of Arts and Humanities. As an experienced academic mentor, she has supervised ten master’s dissertations and nine doctoral theses and has externally examined thirty-seven master’s and twenty-five doctoral candidates. She has attended twenty-three national and international conferences and holds global certifications, including accreditation from the Virtual Institute for Capacity Building in Higher Education (VICBHE) and facilitation certification from UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building for Africa (IICBA) on “Transformative Pedagogy for Peace, Resilience and Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education.”
Research
Political Philosophy, Decolonial Theory, Intercultural Philosophy, African Philosophy, Logic, Critical Thinking
Regions
Africa
Languages
English, Igbo
books
Rudiments of Logic, 2nd Edition, Calabar: University of Calabar Press, 2019.
articles
“Returning to an Authentic African Community: Intercultural and Decolonial Challenges” (co-authored with Jonathan Chimakonam), in: Africa Today, upcoming.
“African Logic or Logic in Africa: Reflections on Chris Ijiomah’s Harmonious Monism,” Ezumezu: African Perspectives on Logic, Transhumanism and AI Ethics vol. 1, No. 1 (2024), 1-18.
“Self-Preservation and Coloniality” (co-authored with Jonathan Chimakonam), Dialogue Universalism 33/1 (2023), 111-128.
“The Imperatives of Critical thinking in Intercultural Philosophy” (co-authored with Jonathan Chimakonam), Philosophia Africana, 21/2 (2022): 100-117.
Journals
FAHSANU Journal: Journal of Arts and Humanities (Editor-in-Chief)
