Edwin Etieyibo
University of the Witwatersrand
Edwin E. Etieyibo has a PhD from the University of Alberta. In 2012 he became Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has also held positions at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, Canada. He has co-authored and edited several books including of Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (with Odirn Omiegbe, 2017), Perspectives in Social Contract Theory (2018), Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum (2018) and Methods, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy (2018). He has also been a guest editor at the South African Journal of Philosophy for their special issue on “Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa.” Etieyibo specializes in ethics, social and political philosophy, African philosophy, and social contract theories.