Ifeanyi Menkiti
Nigerian poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor, as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life and career Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940. In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964. Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility". From 1974 he taught philosophy at Wellesley College in the US with a particular focus on personhood and African philosophy.
Ifeanyi Menkiti's Published Works
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- On the Normative Conception of a Person (2007) (128)
- Physical and Metaphysical Understanding (2004) (16)
- Philosophy and the State in Africa: some Rawlsian considerations (2002) (16)
- Person and community—a retrospective statement (2018) (14)
- Community, Communism, Communitarianism: An African Intervention (2017) (7)
- Africa and Global Justice (2017) (4)
- Philosophy and the State in Africa (2018) (3)
- Criminal responsibility and the mentally ill (1980) (2)
- When Will He Ever Learn (1968) (0)
- Person and communitya retrospective statement (2018) (0)
- Age of the Gods (1968) (0)
- Blessed Be the Race of Man (1968) (0)
- So Help Me God (Poem) (1979) (0)
- Heart of the Matter (1965) (0)
- Peter Nazareth, The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility . Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978. xxxi + 171 pp. No price given. (1980) (0)
- Normative instability and political disorder in Africa (1999) (0)
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