Bachelor of Arts, University of South Africa Main Subjects Philosophy, English and Political Science
Baccalaureate in Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, (K.U.L), Belgium.
Licentiate in Philosophy K.U.L, Belgium. (cum laude)
M.Sc (International Relations) University of London: London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
Thesis Licentiate in Philosophy (cum laude) Title Philosophy of Religion: Ian T. Ramsey Considered From the Standpoint of Philosophical Anthropology
M. Sc Long Essay Title The Relevance of the Just War Theory to Nuclear Weapons Dissertation Doctor of Philosophy (cum laude) Title The Legalistic Character Of Power In International Relations: A Philosophical Essay On The Ethics Of Defence In The Nuclear Age Presented to the Higher Institute of Philosophy, K.U.L, Belgium 1983.
Books
Books/Monographs
Van Eeden kiest voor de maan, isvw uitgevers, Leusden, Nederland, 2020
African Philosophy Through Ubuntu (1999, 2nd edition 2005) Mond Books Publishers, Harare Zimbabwe
Edited Books
Hegel‟s Twilight Liber Amicorum Discipulorumque Pro Heinz Kimmerle, Rodopi: Amsterdam – New York 2013
Chapters in books
On finding the cinerarium for uncremated Ubuntu: on the street wisdom of philosophy, in B de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Menses, (ed.) Knowledges born in the struggle, Routledge, London, 2020
On overcoming epistemic injustice in the education order of South Africa, in Seepe, S., (ed.) Tertiary institutional transformation in South Africa, 2020
Motho ke motho ka batho An African perspective on popular sovereignty and democracy, in Mourad, I et al., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020. p. 261-280
A philosophy without memory cannot abolish slavery: on epistemic justice in South Africa, in Hull, G., (ed.) Debating African Philosophy Perspectives on identity, decolonial ethics and comparative philosophy, Routledge, London and New York, 2019.
Effusion and diffusion in African spirituality, in Kochalumchuvattil, T., (ed.) (2016) African Spirituality: Facts, meanings and values, Asian Trading Corporation, Bengaluru, India. p. 61-
Ubuntu Affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa, in Ubuntu Curating the Archive (ed.) Praeg, L and Magadla, S., University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scottsville, South Africa, 2014. p. 121-136
The strategic significance of HIV/AIDS in Africa, in Hegel‟s Twilight, Ramose M B (ed.) Rodopi, Amsterdam 2013 213-252
“Ecology Through Ubuntu”, in African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. Munyaradzi Felix Murove, (ed.). University of KwaZulu – Natal Press. Scottsville, South Africa. 2009. p. 308 – 314.
“Towards Emancipative Politics in Modern Africa”, in African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. Munyaradzi Felix Murove, (ed.). University of KwaZulu – Natal Press. Scottsville, South Africa. 2009. p. 412 – 426. ISBN 978-1-86914-174-5
“The Development of Thought in Pan Africanism”, (ed.), Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, USA, 2007.
"The King as Memory and Symbol of African Customary Law”, in the Shade of New Leaves. Governance in Traditional Authority: A Southern African perspective. Hinz, M.O., (ed.) LIT Verlag, Berlin. 2006. p. 351-374. ISBN 3-8258-9283-2
“Alexis Kagame on the Bantu Philosophy of Be-ing, Aristotle‟s Categoriae, and De Interpretatione”, in Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Jürgen Hengelbrock (eds.). Amsterdam, New York.
“An African View Of Evil In Nature: Madimabe and Senyama” in Can Nature Be Evil Or Evil Natural? du Toit, C.W., (ed.). University of South Africa Press, Pretoria. 2006. p. 107-116. ISBN 1-86888-398-1
“Philosophy: a Particularist Interpretation with Universal Appeal”, in African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture. Oguejiofor, J. Obi & Onah, G.I.(eds.). LIT Verlag, Münster. 2005. p. 145-159. ISBN 3-8258-8217-9
"The Philosophy of the Anglo-Boer War", in A Century is a short time: New perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War. Nexus editorial collected (eds). Pretoria, Afriscot. p. 11-24. ISBN 0-620-35311-2
“The Earth „Mother‟ Metaphor: An African Perspective”, in Visions of Nature; Studies on the Theory of Gaia and Culture in Ancient and Modern Times. Elders, F (ed.). 2004.
“The Struggle for Reason In Africa”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain.
“The Ethics of Ubuntu”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“The Philosophy of Ubuntu and Ubuntu as a Philosophy”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“I Conquer, Therefore I Am the Sovereign: Reflections Upon Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“Good Governance: Another Export to Africa” in Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa. J. Obi Oguejiofor (ed.). LIT Verlag, Munster. 2003. p. 36-63. ISBN 3-8258-7105-3
Foreword in "Health, Trade and Human Rights", Théodore H MacDonald. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd: Abingdon, Oxon. 2006. vi-viii. ISBN-10 1 84619 050 9; ISBN-13 978 1 84619 050 6
“Globalization and Ubuntu”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.), Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“Rationality and the Question of Diversity in South Africa”, in Research, Identity and Rationalism; Research Institute for Theology and Religion. CW du Toit, (ed.). University of South Africa Press, UNISA, Pretoria. 2002. p. 77-94.
“Wisdom In War and Peace”, in After September 11, Globalisation, War and Peace; Research Institute for Theology and Religion. CW du Toit and GJA Lubbe, (ed.). University of South Africa Press, UNISA, Pretoria. 2002. p. 151-178. ISBN 1-86888-233-0
“The Liberation of Reason from Racism”. Wahba M. (ed.). Goethe Institute, Cairo. p. 109-115. ISBN 977-19-6534-4
“Philosophy and Development”, in Philosophical Focus on Cultural and Traditional Thought Systems in Development, J.M. Nyasani (ed.). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Kenya. 1998.
"Enter The Individual Exit Freedom", in Law, Life and the Images of Man. Fleerackers, F, van Leeuwen, E. and van Roermund, B., Duncker & Humblot (eds.). Berlin. 1996. p. 367-376.
“Specific African Thought Structures and Their Possible Contribution to World Peace”, in Kreativer Friede durch Begegnung der Weltkulturen; Schriften zur Triadik und Ontodynamik. Beck, H. and Schmirber, G., (eds.). Band 9, Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main 1995. p. 227-251.
"The Concept of Life as a Universal Wholeness", in Schadel, E. and Voigt, U., (ed.). Sien-Erkennen-Handeln, Band 7, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994. p. 67-74.
"Life, Universalism and Holistic Thinking", in Universalism Today, Claessens, D. and Mackensen, R. (eds.). Technische Universitat Berlin, Berlin. 1992. p. 585-598.
"Self-Determination in Decolonisation”, in Issues of Self-Determination. Twining, W. (ed.). Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen. 1991. p. 25-32.
"A History Denied: African Philosophy and Social Organisation", in Series on Alternative Development. Number 2, September 1986. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. p. 107-114.
Journal articles
Critique of Ramon Grosfoguel‟s “The epistemic decolonial turn”, Alternation 27, 1(2020) p. 1-37
Reincarnation, resurrection and the question of representation, in Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, Vol. 8 No. 2 May-August 2019
Towards a post-conquest South Africa: beyond the constitution of 1996, in South African Journal on Human Rights, 31 Dec. 2018
Wiping away the tears of the ocean, in Theoria, Issue 153, Vol. 64, No. 4 (December 2017): 22-57
But the man does not throw bones, in Alternation Special edition 18 (2016)60-71
Teacher and student with a critical pan-epistemic orientation: an ethical necessity for Africanising the educational curriculum in Africa, in the South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(4) 2016. p. 546-555
Toward the betterment of human relations, in Dialogue and Universalism, No. 4, 2016. p. 69-85
Introduction: contests and contrasts in philosophy, in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 34, issue 4, 2015. pp. 391-394
On the contested meaning of “philosophy”, in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 34, issue 4, 2015. pp. 551-558
The concept of identity in Masolo, in Quest, Vol. 25, nos. 1-2, 2014 p. 17-29
Dying a hundred deaths: Socrates on truth and justice, in Phronimon, Volume 15.1.2014 p. 67-80
“Reconciliation and reconfiliation in South Africa” in Journal on African Philosophy, Issue 5 2012. p. 20-39 ISSN: 1533-1067
“But the Chichidodo feeds on cocoa”, in Journal on African Philosophy, Issue 4 2012 p. 5-17 ISSN: 1533-1067
Transcender le cosmopolitisme, in Diogene, 235-236, Juillet-Octobre 2011. p. 36-43
Sobre a Legitimidade e o Estudo da Filosofia Africana, in Ensaios Filosoficos, Volume IV outobro 2011. p. 6-25 ISSN 2177-4994
“Learning inspired education” in Caribbean Journal of Philosophy Vol 2, No 1 2010
“The death of democracy and the resurrection of timocracy”. in The Journal of Moral Education. Volume 39, Number 3, September 2010. p. 291-303.
“Military Ethics of Fighting Terror: A Response to Kasher and Yadlin”, in Philosophia 2008, 36. p. 209-212.
“Birth, death and truth: An essay in memory of Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze” in South African Journal of Philosophy. Volume 27, Number 4, 2008. p. 325 – 331.
“In Memoriam: Sovereignty and the „New‟ South Africa”, in Griffith Law Review, A Journal of Social and Critical Legal Studies. Volume 16, number 2, 2007. p. 310-329.
“But Hans Kelsen Was Not Born In Africa: A Reply to Thaddeus Metz”, in South African Journal of Philosophy. Volume 26, number 4, 2007. p. 347-355.
“The Philosophy of Funding Higher Education After the Cold War: The Case of South Africa”, in Alternation, Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa. Durban, 2006. p. 21-48.
“Philosophy and Africa‟s Struggle for Economic Independence”, in Politeia, Journal for Political Science and Public Administration. Vol. 25, No. 1, 2006. p. 3-17. ISSN 0256-8845.
"Towards Black Theology Without God". In The Journal of Theology and Religion. Volume 29, No 1, December 2005. p. 105-132. ISSN 0378-4142
“Poverty: A Creature of Politics and a Question of Justice”, in International Journal of Humanistic Studies. Vol 3, 2004. pp. 36-53. ISSN 1811 – 489X
“The Bewaji, Van Binsbergen and Ramose Debate on Ubuntu”, in The South African Journal of Philosophy. Volume 22. No. 4, 2004
“In Search Of An African Philosophy Of Education”, in South African Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 18, No. 3, 2004.
“I Doubt, Therefore, African Philosophy Exists”, in South African Journal of Philosophy. Volume 22, Number 2, 2003. p. 113-127.
“Transforming Education In South Africa: Paradigm Shift Or Change?”, in South African Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 17, No. 3, 2003.
“Reply to Ayotunde Bewaji‟s Reflections on the African Renaissance and Ubuntu Philosophy”, in South African Journal of Philosophy. Volume 22, No. 4, 2003.
“Africa Between Hope and Despair”, in Philosophy and Social Action. Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002. p. 11-22.
“Logos and Justice In Africa‟s International Relations”, in Dialogue and Universalism. No. 1-2, 2002 p. 27-38. PL ISSN 1234-5792
“Zimbabwe after Lancaster”, Occasional Paper, March 2001.
“Only the Sovereign May Declare War and NATO As Well”, in Studia Moralia. XXXVIII/1 June 2000. p. 197-216.
“African Renaissance: A Northbound Gaze”, in Politeia.19,3, 2000. p. 47-63
“Title to territory: Its Constitutional Implications for Contemporary South Africa and Zimbabwe”, in Recht in Afrika. Heft 2, Jahrgang 2000. p. 189-210
“Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy: South Africa and Zimbabwe”, in Thamyris. Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999. p. 163-189. ISSN 1381-1312
“Human Freedom and the Law of Marriage” in Current Legal Theory. XVI, 1, 1998. p. 23-33.
"God Is Late, What Next Prof. Van Der Walt", in Quest, Vol. IX, No. 1, June 1995. p. 85-105.
“Violence, Peaceful Human Coexistence and Universalism”, in Dialogue and Universalism. Volume III, No. 1, 1993. p. 89-101.
"Steve Biko And The Interpreters Of Black Consciousness: A Response to Lotter" in Acta Academica. Volume 25, Number 2 & 3, December 1993. p. 1-13.
"Wars of National Liberation and the Laws of Armed Conflict" in ARSP, Beiheft 46, 1992. p. 9-17.
"African Democratic Tradition: Oneness, Consensus and Openness: A reply to Wamba-dia-Wamba" in Quest. Volume VI, Number 2, December 1992. p. 62-83.
"Hobbes and the Philosophy of International Relations" in Quest, Volume V, number 1, June 1991. p. 18-35.
"In Search of a Workable and Lasting Constitutional Change in South Africa" in Quest, Volume V, number 2, December 1991. p. 4-31.
"Hegel And Universalism: An African Perspective" in Dialogue and Humanism. Volume 1, number 1, 1991. p. 75-87.
"The Two Hands Of God In South Africa", in Journal of Black Theology in South Africa. Volume 4, number 1, May 1990. p. 18-42.
"Ontology of Invisible Beings", in BOLESWA, Vol. 1, number 2, 1989. p. 1-24.
"Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: A Reply to Professor Couwenberg", in Civis Mundi, Jaargang no. 25, 3, 1986. 79-84.
Chapters in books
On finding the cinerarium for uncremated Ubuntu: on the street wisdom of philosophy, in B de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Menses, (ed.) Knowledges born in the struggle, Routledge, London, 2020
On overcoming epistemic injustice in the education order of South Africa, in Seepe, S., (ed.) Tertiary institutional transformation in South Africa, 2020
Motho ke motho ka batho An African perspective on popular sovereignty and democracy, in Mourad, I et al., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020. p. 261-280
A philosophy without memory cannot abolish slavery: on epistemic justice in South Africa, in Hull, G., (ed.) Debating African Philosophy Perspectives on identity, decolonial ethics and comparative philosophy, Routledge, London and New York, 2019.
Effusion and diffusion in African spirituality, in Kochalumchuvattil, T., (ed.) (2016) African Spirituality: Facts, meanings and values, Asian Trading Corporation, Bengaluru, India. p. 61-86
Ubuntu Affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa, in Ubuntu Curating the Archive (ed.) Praeg, L and Magadla, S., University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scottsville, South Africa, 2014. p. 121-136
The strategic significance of HIV/AIDS in Africa, in Hegel‟s Twilight, Ramose M B (ed.) Rodopi, Amsterdam 2013 213-252
“Ecology Through Ubuntu”, in African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. Munyaradzi Felix Murove, (ed.). University of KwaZulu – Natal Press. Scottsville, South Africa. 2009. p. 308 – 314.
“Towards Emancipative Politics in Modern Africa”, in African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. Munyaradzi Felix Murove, (ed.). University of KwaZulu – Natal Press. Scottsville, South Africa. 2009. p. 412 – 426. ISBN 978-1-86914-174-5
“The Development of Thought in Pan Africanism”, (ed.), Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, USA, 2007.
"The King as Memory and Symbol of African Customary Law”, in the Shade of New Leaves. Governance in Traditional Authority: A Southern African perspective. Hinz, M.O., (ed.) LIT Verlag, Berlin. 2006. p. 351-374. ISBN 3-8258-9283-2
“Alexis Kagame on the Bantu Philosophy of Be-ing, Aristotle‟s Categoriae, and De Interpretatione”, in Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Jürgen Hengelbrock (eds.). Amsterdam, New York.
“An African View Of Evil In Nature: Madimabe and Senyama” in Can Nature Be Evil Or Evil Natural? du Toit, C.W., (ed.). University of South Africa Press, Pretoria. 2006. p. 107-116. ISBN 1-86888-398-1
“Philosophy: a Particularist Interpretation with Universal Appeal”, in African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture. Oguejiofor, J. Obi & Onah, G.I.(eds.). LIT Verlag, Münster. 2005. p. 145-159. ISBN 3-8258-8217-9
"The Philosophy of the Anglo-Boer War", in A Century is a short time: New perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War. Nexus editorial collected (eds). Pretoria, Afriscot. p. 11-24. ISBN 0-620-35311-2
“The Earth „Mother‟ Metaphor: An African Perspective”, in Visions of Nature; Studies on the Theory of Gaia and Culture in Ancient and Modern Times. Elders, F (ed.). 2004.
“The Struggle for Reason In Africa”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain.
“The Ethics of Ubuntu”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“The Philosophy of Ubuntu and Ubuntu as a Philosophy”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“I Conquer, Therefore I Am the Sovereign: Reflections Upon Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J Roux (eds.). Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“Good Governance: Another Export to Africa” in Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa. J. Obi Oguejiofor (ed.). LIT Verlag, Munster. 2003. p. 36-63. ISBN 3-8258-7105-
Foreword in "Health, Trade and Human Rights", Théodore H MacDonald. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd: Abingdon, Oxon. 2006. vi-viii. ISBN-10 1 84619 050 9; ISBN-13 978 1 84619 050 6
“Globalization and Ubuntu”, in The African Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee, A.P.J. Roux (eds.), Routledge, Great Britain. 2003.
“Rationality and the Question of Diversity in South Africa”, in Research, Identity and Rationalism; Research Institute for Theology and Religion. CW du Toit, (ed.). University of South Africa Press, UNISA, Pretoria. 2002. p. 77-94.
“Wisdom In War and Peace”, in After September 11, Globalisation, War and Peace; Research Institute for Theology and Religion. CW du Toit and GJA Lubbe, (ed.). University of South Africa Press, UNISA, Pretoria. 2002. p. 151-178. ISBN 1-86888-233-0
“The Liberation of Reason from Racism”. Wahba M. (ed.). Goethe Institute, Cairo. p. 109-115. ISBN 977-19-6534-4
“Philosophy and Development”, in Philosophical Focus on Cultural and Traditional Thought Systems in Development, J.M. Nyasani (ed.). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Kenya. 1998.
"Enter The Individual Exit Freedom", in Law, Life and the Images of Man. Fleerackers, F, van Leeuwen, E. and van Roermund, B., Duncker & Humblot (eds.). Berlin. 1996. p. 367-376.
“Specific African Thought Structures and Their Possible Contribution to World Peace”, in Kreativer Friede durch Begegnung der Weltkulturen; Schriften zur Triadik und Ontodynamik. Beck, H. and Schmirber, G., (eds.). Band 9, Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main 1995. p. 227-251.
"The Concept of Life as a Universal Wholeness", in Schadel, E. and Voigt, U., (ed.). Sien-Erkennen-Handeln, Band 7, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994. p. 67-74.
"Life, Universalism and Holistic Thinking", in Universalism Today, Claessens, D. and Mackensen, R. (eds.). Technische Universitat Berlin, Berlin. 1992. p. 585-598.
"Self-Determination in Decolonisation”, in Issues of Self-Determination. Twining, W. (ed.). Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen. 1991. p. 25-32.
"A History Denied: African Philosophy and Social Organisation", in Series on Alternative Development. Number 2, September 1986. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. p. 107-114.
Professional positions, fellowships & awards
Membership of Learned Societies
Afro-Asian Philosophy Association (General Secretary)
Inter-African Council of Philosophy (Vice President)
International Federation of Philosophical Societies ( Steering Committee Member)
International Society for African Philosophy
International Society for Universal Dialogue
Membership of Editorial Boards
2007-2008 Politics and Ethics Review
2004 Studies in African Philosophy
2004 International Journal of Humanist Studies
2011 Phronimon
Awards
Anyiam-Asigwe – Nigerian Philosophical Association: “Best book of philosophy in Africa”, 2014 [African philosophy through ubuntu]
Honorary Research Committee Member 1998-2000 – Leiden University, Department of Anthropology, The Netherlands
Leading Philosophers of the World (IBC) 2006
UNISA Chancellor's Prize for Research 2001
Special Awards/Merits
Recipient of festschrift: The tenacity of truthfulness Philosophical essays in honour of Mogobe Bernard Ramose (2019)
Departmental Leadership Training (Stellenbosch University)
Special honorary Arts award – Departmental Leadership (Stellenbosch University)