Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob
University of Calabar
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Affiliations
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Biography
She has a Ph.D in social and political philosophy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a post Graduate Diploma in management and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale University. She has served as the Chair of Department of Philosophy, and Dean, Faculty of Arts at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Her current research is on social and political philosophy and gender issues. She has a special interest in HIV and AIDS prevention and care. Her professional affiliations include the Philosophical Association of Nigeria (PAN), the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, the Faculties of Arts-Humanities Scholars Association of Nigeria (FAHSANU), and the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL). She is an ordained pastor and the Director of Charismatic Renewal Ministries (CRM) Rescue Foundation, a department that focuses on HIV and AIDS awareness/prevention, care and support, peer group education, gender education, health education, capacity building, training and advocacy.
Research Focus
1. To what extent can the poverty of cultivated critical thinking account for the paradoxes in Nigeria’s social, economic and political life?
2. In what ways can the cultivation of good critical thinking address the problem of religious persecution in Nigeria?
3. How can the cultivation of good critical thinking be instituted and harnessed in Nigeria to achieve abundant and flourishing life for the greater majority of Nigerians?
GFI Writings
Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob
University of Calabar
Ideas Have Consequences for Promoting Flourishing in the Global South
“ Life is made up of ideas and ideas have consequences.” Harnessing and managing the resources that promote flourishing cannot be totally separated from people’s ideas and worldviews. In this respect, how can cultivation of critical thinking address the socioeconomic disabilities that undermine the …
Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob
University of Calabar
We Know What Justice Demands. Why Don't We Do It?
The problem of justice at the first order level, both in the Old Testament Scripture and contemporary world can be traced to human natural propensity to be egocentric: How can this natural propensity be tempered so that the human person can see the external other as the extension of the self that is…