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Pan-African Powerhouses: The Interwoven Stories of Ghana and Tanzania
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era.
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Beyond the Neocolonial: Africa and the Dialectics of Human Emancipation
Recommended Citation Neocosmos, Michael. (2026). Beyond the Neocolonial: Africa and the Dialectics of Human Emancipation. Daraja Press. http...
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Handbook of Migration Ethics
Niederberger, A., Okeja, U., & Gördemann, J. (Eds.). 2025. Handbook of Migration Ethics. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10...
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Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Towards an Indian Theory of Freedom
Any serious study of the Indic ideas of freedom must begin with acknowledging the centrality accorded to order in a polity.
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Gender in Turbulent Times: Sexual Violence, Bare Life and Necropolitics
Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South.
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Ujamaa and Ubuntu. Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective
Stråth, Bo. 2024. Ujamaa and Ubuntu. Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Ujamaa...
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Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today
Skalník, Petr. (Ed.). 2022. Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-...
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Rising Up, Living On
Walsh, Catherine E. 2023. Rising Up, Living On. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/rising-up-living-on
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Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject
Simpson, David. 2022. Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject. Boundary 2, 49(2), 271–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9...
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Gandhi and Buber on Individual and Collective Transformation
Meir, Ephraim. 2022. Gandhi and Buber on Individual and Collective Transformation. Religions, 13(7), 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel1307060...
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Narratives, social justice, and the common good
Eze, Chielozona. 2022. Narratives, social justice, and the common good. In Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency (pp. 23–43). Routledge. htt...
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Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State
Neocosmos, Michael. 2021. Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State. Jour...
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The Spirit of Democracy
Näsström, Sofia. 2021. The Spirit of Democracy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898869.001.0001
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When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance
Du Toit, Louise and Jana Vosloo. 2021. When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolen...
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Citizenship in a Globlised World
Hobden, Christine. 2021. Citizenship in a Globlised World. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Citizenship-in-a-Globalised-World/Hobden/p/b...
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“Die pot kook oral”: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering
Du Toit, Louise. 2020. “Die pot kook oral”: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering. Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe...
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Embodied Human Freedom
This research is a part of a larger project: a book on a philosophical account of human freedom, drawing strongly on the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South
The project is based primarily on a book manuscript under contract with Routledge Press: Citizenship in a Globalized World.
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Is Somaliland a Country? The Status of Institutional Objects in the Social Sciences
Somaliland is a democratically governed, autonomous region that defends its borders and issues currency in its own name.
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Introduction: Globalizing or Transcending Global Justice?
Okeja, Uchenna. 2017. Introduction: Globalizing or Transcending Global Justice? Philosophical Papers, 46(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/0...
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Justice through deliberation and the problem of otherness
Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Justice through deliberation and the problem of otherness. Angelaki, 24(2), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.20...
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African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays
Okeja, Uchenna. 2018. African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays (1st ed.). London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/African...
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Reverse migration, brain drain and global justice
Okeja, Uchenna. 2017. Reverse migration, brain drain and global justice. South African Journal of Philosophy, 36(1), 133–143. https://doi.or...
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War by Agreement: A Reflection on the Nature of Just War
Okeja, Uchena. 2019. War by Agreement: A Reflection on the Nature of Just War. Journal of Military Ethics, 18(3), 189–203. https://doi.org/1...
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The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
John De Gruchy (editor). 2011. The Humanist Imperative in South Africa. SUN MeDIA.
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Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice : rethinking law and poverty in a globalizing world
Nancy Fraser. 2012. Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice : rethinking law and poverty in a globalizing world. Stellen...
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Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality
Hans Lindahl. 2013. Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality. Oxford University Press, 286 + xii pp) ISBN 97...
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The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights
Hans Joas. 2013. The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights. Georgetown University Press, 224 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1589019690...
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Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies
Okeja, Uchenna. 2017. Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies. Analyse & Kritik, 39(2), 241–263. ht...
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Exploitation, Commodification and Inequality
Phillips, Anne. 2017. Exploitation, Commodification and Inequality. Pp. 99–118 in Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, edited by M. Deveau...
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Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion
Lindahl, Hans. 2018. Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316...
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Transdemocracy
This book project is geared towards a new understanding of democracy, considering that so-called ‘democratic’ modern decisions negatively affect other peoples and thus become undemocratic.
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In Search of Utopia (working title)
We live in times of the apocalypse.
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Untermenschen: Nietzsche on slavery – and what it means to be human
Does modern capitalism produce new forms of slavery?
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Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of ‘Leaky Bodies’
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body.
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Ubuntu: a Meta-norm for the West?
Ubuntu is an Nguni word that covers a broad semantic field to signify a sharing that connects humans and typifies all right thinking.
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PostAfricanism vs Fanonism
Although the current global age in its most crucial structural orientations, has turned viscerally anti-Fanonian, Fanon remains, especially among the intellectual left, a key intellectual and moral authority still sponsoring the seeming perpetuation of the anti-colonial/decolonial outlook not just in Africa but in the rest of the Third World.
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Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment
This project addresses the idea of global citizenship and common humanity in South Africa today.
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The right to have rights: from migration to integration
One of the key tasks of my stay at STIAS will be to work on a project that addresses the normative and institutional basis of what Hannah Arendt calls the right to have rights.
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Transcultural Affinity: Cosmopolitan Imagination in South Africa
My project examines the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity in South Africa.
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In Pursuit of a Global Civics
We are the luckiest generation in human history.