Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Biographic Data
| ID | 538418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Onyebuchi Eze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Onyebuchi |
| FAMILY NAME | Eze |
| SIGNATURE | EZE M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1269-0489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African storytellers and their philosopher relatives
Literary conversations on African philosophy and literature often mirror two sides of the same epistemic dilemma in African intellectual history. On the one hand, questions emerge in negotiating the ontology or being of African philosophy or literature with regard to its substantive value. On the other hand, are epistemic anxieties on legitimation of stories told about Africa or in Africa often couched as residual epistemology to the Western inte…
Beyond Sovereign Reason: Issues and Contestations in Contemporary African Identity
Issues of collective identity discourses and integration in Africa often face competing national and primordial identities. We explore multilayered integrative mechanisms that have become constitutive of collective African identity. We examine the nature of this identity taking a modern constructivist view of Africa's encounter with Europe. But we also address basic anthropological concerns, focusing on present and future prospects and seeking to…
Menkiti, Gyekye and beyond: Towards a decolonization of African political philosophy
No Abstract
I am Because You Are: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Xenophobia
This paper argues that the dominant discourse on cosmopolitanism has largely focused on its constitutive character (what the law tells us) while ignoring its substantive essence (human fellowship, subjective good). While recognizing the contribution made by other intellectual traditions, the paper argues that none of the approaches have yet answered basic questions of how to live with the stranger beyond the requirement(s) of the law. The paper i…
Emergent Issues in African Philosophy: A Dialogue with Kwasi Wiredu
These are major excerpts from an interview that was conducted with Professor Wiredu at Rhodes University during the thirteenth Annual Conference of The International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (April 3, 2007). He speaks on a wide range of issues, such as political and personal identity, racism and tribalism, moral foundations, the golden rule, African communalism, human rights, personhood, consensus, and meta-philosophy, among oth…
Pan Africanism: A Brief Intellectual History
In this article, I will historicize the socio‐political and cultural emergence of Pan Africanism as an ideology. In doing so, one is enabled to appreciate its continued relevance and significance as well as its limitations and imposed misrecognition, morass misapplications, and muddled ambiguities within history. Historicizing Pan Africanism as a discourse frees it from an essentialist rendered definition and enables a new understanding in which …
Pan‐Africanism and the Politics of History
Africa is not a country! It is neither a homogenous socio‐cultural group nor a unanimous ethno‐political sovereign. How then could we speak of Pan‐Africanism without generating an ambiguous vernacular mode of identity formation deeply rooted in questionable intellectual claims grounded in politics of history? To make sense of our discourse, therefore, is to localize it within the context of its emergence. These context(s) are the Trans‐Atlantic e…
The politics of being a human being in Soweto: Identity as a social capital ‘ Everything not forbidden is compulsory ’ (T.H. White)
In this paper, the concept of social capital is redefined in the context of identity politics within contemporary South Africa. A case is made against the fetishism of identity dogmas that thrive upon closed historicity. Any narrative of subjective formation that is beckoned upon closed historicity is a predisposition towards identity ‘commoditisation’. As the term suggests, commoditisation implies that human subjectivity is ‘wholly’ dependent an…
The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuit
Africanism: A History of Histories
Contemporary African intellectuals are a product of the encounter with the West where they were educated—a situation that has generated an ambivalent complexity, producing what Appiah (1992: 86) calls a distinctive form of cultural (dis)location, a phenomenon Abiola Irele (2007: 202) enunciated in “In Praise of Alienation”: We are conscious of the irreversible nature of the transformations the impact of Europe has effected in our midst and which …
Post-colonial Displacements
Colonialism left in its wake a sociopolitical system that is anachronistic to the actual postcolonial condition. New African governments inherited structures designed primarily to benefit the colonial architecture. Politically, it was anachronistic to any aspiration for a national core. Economically, it was a structural system devised to provide raw materials for the industries of the West. On this point, Walter Rodney (1997: 585) unambiguously d…
What is African Communitarianism? Against Consensus as a regulative ideal
In this essay, an attempt is made to re-present African Communitarianism as a discursive formation between the individual and community. It is a view which eschews the dominant position of many Africanist scholars on the primacy of the community over the individual in the ‘individual-community’ debate in contemporary Africanist discourse. The relationship between the individual and community is dialogical for the identity of the individual and th…
What is African Communitarianism? Against Consensus as a regulative ideal
In this essay, an attempt is made to re-present African Communitarianism as a discursive formation between the individual and community. It is a view which eschews the dominant position of many Africanist scholars on the primacy of the community over the individual in the ‘individual-community’ debate in contemporary Africanist discourse. The relationship between the individual and community is dialogical for the identity of the individual and th…
Beyond Sovereign Reason: Issues and Contestations in Contemporary African Identity
Issues of collective identity discourses and integration in Africa often face competing national and primordial identities. We explore multilayered integrative mechanisms that have become constitutive of collective African identity. We examine the nature of this identity taking a modern constructivist view of Africa's encounter with Europe. But we also address basic anthropological concerns, focusing on present and future prospects and seeking to…
Pan Africanism: A Brief Intellectual History
In this article, I will historicize the socio‐political and cultural emergence of Pan Africanism as an ideology. In doing so, one is enabled to appreciate its continued relevance and significance as well as its limitations and imposed misrecognition, morass misapplications, and muddled ambiguities within history. Historicizing Pan Africanism as a discourse frees it from an essentialist rendered definition and enables a new understanding in which …
Pan‐Africanism and the Politics of History
Africa is not a country! It is neither a homogenous socio‐cultural group nor a unanimous ethno‐political sovereign. How then could we speak of Pan‐Africanism without generating an ambiguous vernacular mode of identity formation deeply rooted in questionable intellectual claims grounded in politics of history? To make sense of our discourse, therefore, is to localize it within the context of its emergence. These context(s) are the Trans‐Atlantic e…
The politics of being a human being in Soweto: Identity as a social capital ‘ Everything not forbidden is compulsory ’ (T.H. White)
In this paper, the concept of social capital is redefined in the context of identity politics within contemporary South Africa. A case is made against the fetishism of identity dogmas that thrive upon closed historicity. Any narrative of subjective formation that is beckoned upon closed historicity is a predisposition towards identity ‘commoditisation’. As the term suggests, commoditisation implies that human subjectivity is ‘wholly’ dependent an…
What is African Communitarianism? Against Consensus as a regulative ideal
In this essay, an attempt is made to re-present African Communitarianism as a discursive formation between the individual and community. It is a view which eschews the dominant position of many Africanist scholars on the primacy of the community over the individual in the ‘individual-community’ debate in contemporary Africanist discourse. The relationship between the individual and community is dialogical for the identity of the individual and th…
The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuit
Africanism: A History of Histories
Contemporary African intellectuals are a product of the encounter with the West where they were educated—a situation that has generated an ambivalent complexity, producing what Appiah (1992: 86) calls a distinctive form of cultural (dis)location, a phenomenon Abiola Irele (2007: 202) enunciated in “In Praise of Alienation”: We are conscious of the irreversible nature of the transformations the impact of Europe has effected in our midst and which …
Post-colonial Displacements
Colonialism left in its wake a sociopolitical system that is anachronistic to the actual postcolonial condition. New African governments inherited structures designed primarily to benefit the colonial architecture. Politically, it was anachronistic to any aspiration for a national core. Economically, it was a structural system devised to provide raw materials for the industries of the West. On this point, Walter Rodney (1997: 585) unambiguously d…
The politics of being a human being in Soweto: Identity as a social capital ‘ Everything not forbidden is compulsory ’ (T.H. White)
In this paper, the concept of social capital is redefined in the context of identity politics within contemporary South Africa. A case is made against the fetishism of identity dogmas that thrive upon closed historicity. Any narrative of subjective formation that is beckoned upon closed historicity is a predisposition towards identity ‘commoditisation’. As the term suggests, commoditisation implies that human subjectivity is ‘wholly’ dependent an…
Pan Africanism: A Brief Intellectual History
In this article, I will historicize the socio‐political and cultural emergence of Pan Africanism as an ideology. In doing so, one is enabled to appreciate its continued relevance and significance as well as its limitations and imposed misrecognition, morass misapplications, and muddled ambiguities within history. Historicizing Pan Africanism as a discourse frees it from an essentialist rendered definition and enables a new understanding in which …
Pan‐Africanism and the Politics of History
Africa is not a country! It is neither a homogenous socio‐cultural group nor a unanimous ethno‐political sovereign. How then could we speak of Pan‐Africanism without generating an ambiguous vernacular mode of identity formation deeply rooted in questionable intellectual claims grounded in politics of history? To make sense of our discourse, therefore, is to localize it within the context of its emergence. These context(s) are the Trans‐Atlantic e…
Emergent Issues in African Philosophy: A Dialogue with Kwasi Wiredu
These are major excerpts from an interview that was conducted with Professor Wiredu at Rhodes University during the thirteenth Annual Conference of The International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (April 3, 2007). He speaks on a wide range of issues, such as political and personal identity, racism and tribalism, moral foundations, the golden rule, African communalism, human rights, personhood, consensus, and meta-philosophy, among oth…
I am Because You Are: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Xenophobia
This paper argues that the dominant discourse on cosmopolitanism has largely focused on its constitutive character (what the law tells us) while ignoring its substantive essence (human fellowship, subjective good). While recognizing the contribution made by other intellectual traditions, the paper argues that none of the approaches have yet answered basic questions of how to live with the stranger beyond the requirement(s) of the law. The paper i…
Menkiti, Gyekye and beyond: Towards a decolonization of African political philosophy
No Abstract
Beyond Sovereign Reason: Issues and Contestations in Contemporary African Identity
Issues of collective identity discourses and integration in Africa often face competing national and primordial identities. We explore multilayered integrative mechanisms that have become constitutive of collective African identity. We examine the nature of this identity taking a modern constructivist view of Africa's encounter with Europe. But we also address basic anthropological concerns, focusing on present and future prospects and seeking to…
African storytellers and their philosopher relatives
Literary conversations on African philosophy and literature often mirror two sides of the same epistemic dilemma in African intellectual history. On the one hand, questions emerge in negotiating the ontology or being of African philosophy or literature with regard to its substantive value. On the other hand, are epistemic anxieties on legitimation of stories told about Africa or in Africa often couched as residual epistemology to the Western inte…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)