Joseph Chukwuemeka Agbakoba was a Nigerian professor of philosophy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who also served as deputy vice-chancellor of Madonna University from 2013 to 2017. He developed the concepts of reasonabilism and Afro-constructivism within African development philosophy and ethics, arguing that African values can promote development and that creative self-manifestation is a source of African identity. He served as president of the Nigerian Philosophical Association and died on December 27, 2025.
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He is best known for his work around development philosophy and ethics for Africa, and his association with reasonabilism, Afro-constructivism, transcolonial theory, and Africanity as creative self-manifestive identity, among other concepts in contemporary African thought.
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Joseph Chukwuemeka (Chemeka) Achike Anthony Agbakoba was a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).
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