College of Humanities,
School of History, Religions and Philosophies
& Department of Philosophy
Dr Elvis Imafidon
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Philosophy Reader in African Philosophy
- Department
- College of Humanities, School of History, Religions and Philosophies & Department of Philosophy
- Qualifications
- PhD (Ibadan)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 338
- Email address
- ei4@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Elvis Imafidon is a Reader in African Philosophy and Head of the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London.
He is also Chair of the Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, a 2017 Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study and a Research Associate of the African Centre for Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.
Elvis Imafidon is the author and editor of several books, including African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (Routledge 2019), Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (Springer 2020), Handbook of African Philosophy (Springer 2023), and Doing African Philosophy: Beyond Textuality and Individual Authorship (Bloomsbury 2025).
Research interests
Dr Elvis Imafidon's expertise is in African philosophy broadly construed, and key research areas include theoretical and thematic issues in ontology, ethics and epistemology in African traditions often in critical dialogue with Western philosophy.
Core theoretical and thematic interests engaged with primarily from African philosophical perspectives include communitarian ontology and collaborative pedagogies, the philosophy of difference, personhood, gender, inclusive pedagogies, disability, corporeality and healthcare, and the critical discourse of intellectuality, including ecocentric and collaborative intellectuality.
