Uchenna Okeja was educated in Nigeria and Germany. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in both philosophy and theology. He also received a master degree in management. He was awarded his PhD in philosophy by Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2011. Currently, he teaches courses in philosophy, business ethics and corporate governance at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany. For his PhD dissertation, he was awarded a gifted students’ fellowship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Though primarily interdisciplinary in his research, he mainly works in the areas of political and social philosophy, epistemology of religious beliefs, postcolonial philosophy and applied (especially business) ethics.

Uchenna Okeja’s work represents an exciting and important turn in African philosophy. Rather than philosophically describing, explaining or defending Africa, as has often happened in the past, Okeja engages the question of global ethics with African philosophy as an equal dialogue partner. If the project of global ethics is the beginning of a dialogue, Okeja amply and persuasively demonstrates that African philosophy brings important tools and concepts that can both shape and intervene in that dialogue. Uchenna Okeja shows us African philosophy’s great untapped potential – a set of concepts and ideas forged in a unique place, which both serve as a lens on lived African experience and also contribute to contemporary debates.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsForeword (by Professor Bruce B. Janz)IntroductionChapter 1: On the Concept of a Global EthicChapter 2: The Contexts of the Normative JustificationChapter 3: The Concept and Development of African EthicsChapter 4: Reconstruction of the Global Ethic ProjectChapter 5: African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global EthicChapter 6: Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality

Uchenna Okeja was educated in Nigeria and Germany. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in both philosophy and theology. He also received a master degree in management. He was awarded his PhD in philosophy by Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2011. Currently, he teaches courses in philosophy, business ethics and corporate governance at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany. For his PhD dissertation, he was awarded a gifted students’ fellowship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Though primarily interdisciplinary in his research, he mainly works in the areas of political and social philosophy, epistemology of religious beliefs, postcolonial philosophy and applied (especially business) ethics.

Uchenna Okeja’s work represents an exciting and important turn in African philosophy. Rather than philosophically describing, explaining or defending Africa, as has often happened in the past, Okeja engages the question of global ethics with African philosophy as an equal dialogue partner. If the project of global ethics is the beginning of a dialogue, Okeja amply and persuasively demonstrates that African philosophy brings important tools and concepts that can both shape and intervene in that dialogue. Uchenna Okeja shows us African philosophy’s great untapped potential – a set of concepts and ideas forged in a unique place, which both serve as a lens on lived African experience and also contribute to contemporary debates.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsForeword (by Professor Bruce B. Janz)IntroductionChapter 1: On the Concept of a Global EthicChapter 2: The Contexts of the Normative JustificationChapter 3: The Concept and Development of African EthicsChapter 4: Reconstruction of the Global Ethic ProjectChapter 5: African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global EthicChapter 6: Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality

Uchenna Okeja was educated in Nigeria and Germany. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in both philosophy and theology. He also received a master degree in management. He was awarded his PhD in philosophy by Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2011. Currently, he teaches courses in philosophy, business ethics and corporate governance at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany. For his PhD dissertation, he was awarded a gifted students’ fellowship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Though primarily interdisciplinary in his research, he mainly works in the areas of political and social philosophy, epistemology of religious beliefs, postcolonial philosophy and applied (especially business) ethics.

Uchenna Okeja’s work represents an exciting and important turn in African philosophy. Rather than philosophically describing, explaining or defending Africa, as has often happened in the past, Okeja engages the question of global ethics with African philosophy as an equal dialogue partner. If the project of global ethics is the beginning of a dialogue, Okeja amply and persuasively demonstrates that African philosophy brings important tools and concepts that can both shape and intervene in that dialogue. Uchenna Okeja shows us African philosophy’s great untapped potential – a set of concepts and ideas forged in a unique place, which both serve as a lens on lived African experience and also contribute to contemporary debates.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsForeword (by Professor Bruce B. Janz)IntroductionChapter 1: On the Concept of a Global EthicChapter 2: The Contexts of the Normative JustificationChapter 3: The Concept and Development of African EthicsChapter 4: Reconstruction of the Global Ethic ProjectChapter 5: African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global EthicChapter 6: Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality