Donald Mark C Ude
Biographic Data
| ID | 310193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Mark C Ude |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald Mark C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ude |
| SIGNATURE | UDE D M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6562-8515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plurality of the Secular
The article argues that existing conceptualizations of secularity ought to be expanded to embrace a plurality of practices and forms of life within African societies. In other words, secularity must be understood as a plurality of historically situated forms of life rather than a single Western conceptual template. Two interconnected objectives define the article. The first is to show shows how the concepts of “deprivatization,” “conditions of be…
Re-Imagining Religion Along Postsecular Lines in Sub-Saharan Africa
Religion continues to exert a far-reaching influence on politics in sub-Saharan Africa. This influence is ambivalent, in that it carries significant promise while simultaneously posing serious contemporary challenges. Although there is nothing essentially problematic about religion—which indeed shapes social morality and nurtures solidarity—certain abuses grounded in faith traditions nonetheless have deleterious political and economic ramificatio…
Solidarity as a political resource
Politics at any level relies heavily on genuine sentiments of solidarity and allegiance citizens have for the political community. But how could solidarity be kept real, feasible, and effective while remaining judiciously open to cosmopolitan ideals of global citizenship? Drawing on Kwame Appiah’s concept of ‘cosmopolitan patriotism’ and cognate insights on political identity and its construction, the essay argues that patriotic solidarity and co…
Colonialism, Modernity, and African Agency
The move to “decolonize” is sweeping across academic disciplines, but scholars are becoming wary, suspecting that the term may have lost its value. Olufemi Taiwo may be the most subversive critic of decolonization discourses, which he derides as mere tropes. On the one hand, this essay underscores the cogency of his case and even parries some of the most critical remarks it has received; on the other hand, it parts ways with him, taking the conce…
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa's indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin…
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights
This article primarily sets out to investigate whether Igbo (African) thoughts on death might be considered Heideggerian or not. It does so by analysing and juxtaposing five key elements of Heidegger’s existentialist analysis of Dasein’s death with some important features of Igbo (African) thoughts on death. This is aimed at challenging an identifiable attempt by scholars like Chukwuelobe and Onwuanibe to couch the Igbo metaphysics of death in He…
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa's Emigration Crisis
The paper has two complementary objectives. First, it sustains an analysis of the concept of 'coloniality' that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world, demonstrating precisely how Africa is adversely affected, having been caught up in the throes of coloniality and its epistemic implications. Second - and complementarily - the paper attempts to bring this very concept of 'coloniality' into the discourse on Africa's emigration cri…
Modernity and the Igbo Lifeworld
This article theorizes the modernization dynamics of the Igbo world, using the Habermasian framework. Drawing on Habermas, it argues that Igbo modernity or, more precisely, the transformations associated with Igbo modernization, may be understood in terms of the “uncoupling” of systems from the Igbo lifeworld. Relatedly, it further argues that the crises and pathologies that attend modernity in Igboland owe largely to the “colonization” of the Ig…
Cunning of Reason” and the Igbo concept of Chi
The central argument of this article is that there is a remarkable conceptual parallel between Hegel’s famous notion of the “cunning of Reason” and the philosophically profound concept of Chi in Igbo metaphysics. By way of establishing this parallel, the article advances the following subsidiary but complementary points: Chi is also “cunning” in its dynamics; both principles (i.e. Chi and Reason/Spirit) are non-deterministic because they try to m…
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa's Emigration Crisis
The paper has two complementary objectives. First, it sustains an analysis of the concept of 'coloniality' that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world, demonstrating precisely how Africa is adversely affected, having been caught up in the throes of coloniality and its epistemic implications. Second - and complementarily - the paper attempts to bring this very concept of 'coloniality' into the discourse on Africa's emigration cri…
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa's indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin…
Modernity and the Igbo Lifeworld
This article theorizes the modernization dynamics of the Igbo world, using the Habermasian framework. Drawing on Habermas, it argues that Igbo modernity or, more precisely, the transformations associated with Igbo modernization, may be understood in terms of the “uncoupling” of systems from the Igbo lifeworld. Relatedly, it further argues that the crises and pathologies that attend modernity in Igboland owe largely to the “colonization” of the Ig…
Cunning of Reason” and the Igbo concept of Chi
The central argument of this article is that there is a remarkable conceptual parallel between Hegel’s famous notion of the “cunning of Reason” and the philosophically profound concept of Chi in Igbo metaphysics. By way of establishing this parallel, the article advances the following subsidiary but complementary points: Chi is also “cunning” in its dynamics; both principles (i.e. Chi and Reason/Spirit) are non-deterministic because they try to m…
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa's Emigration Crisis
The paper has two complementary objectives. First, it sustains an analysis of the concept of 'coloniality' that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world, demonstrating precisely how Africa is adversely affected, having been caught up in the throes of coloniality and its epistemic implications. Second - and complementarily - the paper attempts to bring this very concept of 'coloniality' into the discourse on Africa's emigration cri…
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights
This article primarily sets out to investigate whether Igbo (African) thoughts on death might be considered Heideggerian or not. It does so by analysing and juxtaposing five key elements of Heidegger’s existentialist analysis of Dasein’s death with some important features of Igbo (African) thoughts on death. This is aimed at challenging an identifiable attempt by scholars like Chukwuelobe and Onwuanibe to couch the Igbo metaphysics of death in He…
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa's indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin…
Solidarity as a political resource
Politics at any level relies heavily on genuine sentiments of solidarity and allegiance citizens have for the political community. But how could solidarity be kept real, feasible, and effective while remaining judiciously open to cosmopolitan ideals of global citizenship? Drawing on Kwame Appiah’s concept of ‘cosmopolitan patriotism’ and cognate insights on political identity and its construction, the essay argues that patriotic solidarity and co…
Colonialism, Modernity, and African Agency
The move to “decolonize” is sweeping across academic disciplines, but scholars are becoming wary, suspecting that the term may have lost its value. Olufemi Taiwo may be the most subversive critic of decolonization discourses, which he derides as mere tropes. On the one hand, this essay underscores the cogency of his case and even parries some of the most critical remarks it has received; on the other hand, it parts ways with him, taking the conce…
Plurality of the Secular
The article argues that existing conceptualizations of secularity ought to be expanded to embrace a plurality of practices and forms of life within African societies. In other words, secularity must be understood as a plurality of historically situated forms of life rather than a single Western conceptual template. Two interconnected objectives define the article. The first is to show shows how the concepts of “deprivatization,” “conditions of be…
Re-Imagining Religion Along Postsecular Lines in Sub-Saharan Africa
Religion continues to exert a far-reaching influence on politics in sub-Saharan Africa. This influence is ambivalent, in that it carries significant promise while simultaneously posing serious contemporary challenges. Although there is nothing essentially problematic about religion—which indeed shapes social morality and nurtures solidarity—certain abuses grounded in faith traditions nonetheless have deleterious political and economic ramificatio…
African cultural and philosophical studies (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Igbo (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Hegemony (2 works)