John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji

Emeritus Researcher · P. J. Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy

tunde.bewaji@gmail.com

John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji (PhD Philosophy and MA Distance Education), first Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of the West Indies; Member of One-UWI Mentor to Academic Staff; Member of CODESRIA College of PhD Mentors in Africa and Former Visiting Research Fellow, Rhodes University (2022); Senior Research Associate, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and University of Johannesburg; Carnegie/CODESRIA Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan (2016) and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2021); Newman Endowed Chair Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Culture, Brooklyn College – CUNY, USA (2011-2012); Guggenheim Research Fellow in Philosophy of Culture (2010); Member, Global Summit of Bioethics; Former Chairman, National Bioethics Committee of Jamaica (UNESCO); Founding Editor, Caribbean Journal of Philosophy (CJP); Founding President, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS); Founding President, Academy of African0 Indigenous Religions, Theology and Art (AAIRTA). His books include Beauty and Culture (2003), An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (2007), Narratives of Struggle (2012), Ontologized Ethics (2013), Black Aesthetics (2013), Introduction to Philosophy and Logic (2014), The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society (2016), The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century (2017), Media Theory, Practice and Ethics (2017), Identity Recreation in Global African Encounters (2019) and Fragmented Identities of Nigeria (2021). He is Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters.