Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Prof JO Chimakonam is a multiple award-winning philosopher, logician, public intellectual and social thinker. He specialises in African philosophy, logic, race and decoloniality studies. He formulated the theory of Conversational philosophy, the method of Conversational thinking, and a system of logic called Ezumezu that grounds both.

He taught at the University of Calabar, Nigeria for several years. His teaching and research interests include African Philosophy, Ethics, Intercultural Philosophy, Logic, Environmental Ethics, Political philosophy, Race/racism and Postmodern/postcolonial/decolonial thought.

He has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited more than 150 articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Chimakonam has given several invited lectures at various universities around the world. He is the President of The Conversational Society of Philosophy.