Department of Religions and Philosophies & School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Dr Elvis Imafidon

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Roles: Department of Religions and Philosophies Lecturer
Department: Department of Religions and Philosophies & School of History, Religions and Philosophies
Qualifications: PhD (Ibadan)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 338
Email address: ei4@soas.ac.uk
Support hours: Tuesdays by appointment (booked via email for in-person on campus). Or online drop-in room between 12:00 and 13:00 via Zoom.

Biography

Dr Elvis Imafidon is a Lecturer in African Philosophy in the Department of Religions and Philosophies and Director of the Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS University of London.

He is also a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg and a 2017 Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study. His areas of research include African Philosophy, the philosophy of difference, the philosophy of corporeality, the philosophy of healthcare, ethics, and ontology, primarily from African philosophical perspectives.

He 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) and Handbook of African Philosophy (Springer 2023).

Publications

Contact Elvis

Email: ei4@soas.ac.uk

Research

School of History, Religions and Philosophies & College of Humanities

The non-textuality of knowledge: Orality and symbolism in African philosophy

The project challenges the exclusion in the dominant understanding of philosophical traditions and of philosophical knowledge as essentially textual, exploring the non-textuality of philosophical knowledge in African places with a specific focus on oral and symbolic forms of knowledge.

School of History, Religions and Philosophies & College of Humanities

Alternative explanations for disability: Inspiring patient-centered care among healthcare practitioners through the arts

The project is an interdisciplinary and public engagement project that brings together academics, healthcare workers and persons with disabilities in three different African countries to collectively and creatively understand and challenge deeply rooted philosophies and beliefs about disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa and their impact on access to healthcare for persons with disabilities.

School of History, Religions and Philosophies & Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies

Street Philosophy Workshops

Exploring the rich and thick philosophical concepts and ideas emerging from streets in communities and cultures around the globe.

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

The School specialises in teaching and researching the history, religion, and philosophy of the Global South in a critical, decolonial, and interdisciplinary manner.

School of History, Religions and Philosophies & Centre of Jaina Studies

Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage

Exploring the relationships between Jaina mendicant lineages and their supporters.

Department of Religions and Philosophies

The Department of Religion and Philosophies SOAS University of London.

Dr Elvis Imafidon

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Biography

Publications

Articles Open

Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project

Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa

Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

African Communitarian Philosophy of Personhood and Disability: The Asymmetry of Value and Power in Access to Healthcare

Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured?

Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent

Fundamental Questions about Nothing

Heidegger’s Approach to Being: Man as the Fundament of Ontology

Blogs Open

Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field

Book sections Open

Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy

Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition

Challenging Traditional Understandings: Embedding Accurate Knowledge of Albinism in African Cultures

Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa

African Ontology, Albinism, and Human Rights

Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions

African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient

The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions

Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions

Life’s Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three Ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism, and the African Worldview

Books Open

African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race

Edited books Open

Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ontologzed Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics