OKORO, Chiedozie Benamin

Title: Prof.

Name:  OKORO, Chiedozie Benamin

Position: Professor

Education:

1. Personal Statement

I have been a full Professor of Philosophy since 2016, specializing in Applied Ontology, Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Kantian, Phenomenological and African traditions. I am the current Head of Philosophy and also the current Chairman Board of Trustees Faculty of Arts Alumni Association (FAAA). I was the Sub-Dean of Arts (2011-2013). I hold membership of Philosophical Association of Nigeria (PAN), Nigeria Academy of Letters (NAL), and International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP). My current areas of research is on Integrative Metaphysics Phenomenology of Life-force, Motherhood Earth Ethic and African AI, which are knowledge systems/methodologies derived from African cultural hermeneutics for constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing issues in leadership, security, economy, policy, ideology, nation building and African knowledge system on environmental sustainability.  I have successfully supervised 8 Ph.Ds. Email addresses: cokoro@unilag.edu.ng, chiedozieokoro@gmail.com. Telephone: +2348023153012.

1. B. Positions, Appointments and Honours

• Head, Department of Philosophy – August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2025
• Chairman of Board of Trustees, Faculty of Arts Alumni Association (FAAA), University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos – January 2022 to Date.
• Award of excellence as the most Studently Friendly Head of Department (HOD) by the National Association of Philosophy Students (NAPS), Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos – August 2024.
• Adjunct Lecturer at the National Open University of Nigeria – January 2022 – August 2024
• Award in appreciation and recognition of my contribution towards Students’ Academic Excellence by the National Association of Philosophy Students (NAPS), Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos – August 2021.
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Legon, Acrra, Ghana – April 2019 to March 2020
• Member, Examinations Misconduct Committee, Postgraduate School 2014 – 2018
• Chairman, Departmental Postgraduate Committee 2013 – 2018
• Sub-Dean of Arts 2011 to 2013
• Member Central Admission Committee 2011 – 2013
• Member Examination Results Committee, Postgraduate School 2011 – 2013
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana – February 23rd 2010 to February 24th 2011
• Award as Best Course Adviser by the National Association of Philosophy Students (NAPS), Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos – October 2008.
• Member, Philosophers Association of Nigeria (PAN)
• Member, International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)
• Fellow, Institute of Strategic and Security Studies (FISS)
• Member, Nigeria Academy of Letters (NAL)
• Non-Cluster Member Institute of African, Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
• Pioneer Member of Chiist Virtual University, Florida, United State.

1. Selected Most Recent Publications/Contribution to Knowledge (Five (5) Maximum)
2. Chiedozie Okoro, Uduma Oji Uduma and Igban Kalu Odim (2024), “Igbo Ontology of Person and Environment”, The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy. Section B, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 76-92.
3. Okoro, Chiedozie and Godwin E. Azenabor (2023) Eds, Introduction to Philosophy: A Compendium. Lagos: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos.
4. Okoro, Chiedozie and Jim I Unah (2023) Eds., Philosophy and Security: A Critical Reader. Lagos: Philosophers Association of Nigeria.
5. Okoro, Chiedozie (2022), An Ideological Interrogation of Transnational Organized Crime and the Practice of Penology”. A Handbook of Transnational Crime and the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Eds. P. N. Nwabueze, F. Attoh & S. O. Adejoh), Lagos: University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Ltd.
6. Okoro, Chiedozie (2021), “Imagination, the Subconscious, and the Question of Organizational and Community Resilience”. Philosophy and Praxis: Journal of the Philosophers Association of Nigeria. New Series, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 71-80.

My contribution to knowledge is especially important in the area decolonization of Western knowledge corpus, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of African indigenous knowledge corpus through a dialogical process of complementary studies.

1. Collaborators/Networks (International Inclusive five (5) Maximum)
2. Institute of African, Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
3. Institute of Strategic and Security Studies (FISS), Abuja, Nigeria.
4. Chiist (Mahadum) Virtual University, Florida, United State
5. University of Lagos Business School (ULBS), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria