About
I am a philosopher whose work sits at the intersection of African philosophy, theories of place and space, phenomenology, and digital humanities. The thread running through all of it is a single question: what does it mean to think from somewhere? — to do philosophy that is grounded in a particular place, culture, and tradition, rather than pretending to a view from nowhere.
My book African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought (Bloomsbury, 2023) brings together African philosophical traditions and cognitive science to ask how thought is constituted through embodied, emplaced engagement with the world. Earlier work — including Philosophy in an African Place (Lexington, 2009) and the edited volume Place, Space and Hermeneutics (Springer, 2017) — developed the framework of "philosophy-in-place" that continues to anchor my research.
At UCF I founded and direct the Center for Humanities and Digital Research, which supports digital scholarship across the humanities. I am also a series co-editor (with Uchenna Okeja) of African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue at Lexington/Bloomsbury — 19 volumes to date.