Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity: An Igbo Response

This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.

Donald Mark C. Ude studied in Nigeria, Kenya, Canada, and Belgium. He has a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven (2021), where he currently researches and teaches. He is a recipient of a number of coveted research fellowship awards, notably FWO (Belgium) and Humboldt (Germany). His articles have featured in Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy Today, South African Journal of Philosophy, and several important journals. He maintains an active research interest in African philosophy, African studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, critical theory, social/political philosophy, modernity, and post-secularism. At freer moments, he writes on topical socio-political issues in Nigerian newspapers.