Assistant Professor
e-mail: chike.jeffers@dal.ca

Interests:

Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics

Education:

Ph.D in Philosophy - Northwestern University, 2010 B.A., Honours, in Philosophy (w/ minor in Film Studies) - York University, 2004

Selected publications:

"The Pitfalls of Placing the African Personality on the World Stage: Edward Blyden's Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism," The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring 2010): 1-5.

"Black Civilization and the Dialogue of Cultures: Senghor's Combination of Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism," in Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance, ed. Isabelle Constant and Kahiudi Mabana (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), 54-64.

"Strategies of Organization: Paget Henry and Traditional African Philosophy," The C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas 10 (Winter 2004): 13-23. Reprinted in Shifting the Geography of Reason: Gender, Science and Religion, ed. Marina Paolo Banchetti-Robino and Clevis Ronald Headley (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), 142-152.