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Authored Books

Imafidon, Elvis (2018) African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Imafidon, Elvis and Baker, Charlotte, eds. (2022) Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Oxford: Peter Lang. (Disability, Media, Culture)

Imafidon, Elvis and Baker, Charlotte, eds. (2022) Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Honolulu, HI: Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal.

Imafidon, Elvis and Bewaji, John Ayotunde Isola, eds. (2014) Ontologzed Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Imafidon, Elvis (2023) 'Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy.' In: Imafidon, Elvis, Tshivhase, Mpho and Freter, Björn, (eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 1-17.

Imafidon, Elvis (2023) 'Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition.' In: Ikhane, Peter and Ukpokolo, Isaac, (eds.), African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 48-59. (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy)

Imafidon, Elvis (2022) 'Challenging Traditional Understandings: Embedding Accurate Knowledge of Albinism in African Cultures.' In: Baker, Charlotte and Imafidon, Elvis, (eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 15-35. (Disability, Media, Culture)

Imafidon, Elvis and Baker, Charlotte (2022) 'Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa.' In: Imafidon, Elvis and Baker, Charlotte, (eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 1-14. (Disability, Media, Culture)

Imafidon, Elvis (2022) 'African Ontology, Albinism, and Human Rights.' In: Grischow, Jeff and Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Magnus, (eds.), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa. Suffolk: James Currey, pp. 231-246. (African Issues, 44)

Imafidon, Elvis (2022) 'African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient.' In: Agada, Ada, (ed.), Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, pp. 175-187.

Imafidon, Elvis, Iyare, Austin E. and Abudu, Kenneth U. (2022) 'Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions.' In: Chimakonam, Jonathan O., Eiteyibo, Edwin and Odimegwu, Ike, (eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, pp. 281-300.

Imafidon, Elvis (2021) 'The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions.' In: Botha, Catherine, (ed.), African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics. Leiden: Brill, pp. 23-36. (Studies in Somaesthetics)

Imafidon, Elvis (2018) 'Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions.' In: Chimakonam, Jonathan O. and de Toit, Louise, (eds.), African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women. London: Routledge, pp. 89-106. (Routledge African Studies)

Imafidon, Elvis (2014) 'Life’s Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three Ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism, and the African Worldview.' In: Imafidon, Elvis and Bewaji, John Ayotunde Isola, (eds.), Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics. Maryland, USA: Lexington Books, pp. 133-150.

Journal Article

Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl, Astle, Barbara, Ero, Ikponwosa, Beaman, Lori, Ibhawoh, Bonny, Imafidon, Elvis, Sawatzky, Richard, Tettey, Wisdom, Buyco, Meghann and Strobell, Emma (2024) 'Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project.' International Journal for Equity in Health, 23 (1).

Ibhawoh, Bonny, Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl, Ero, Ikponwosa, Mgijima-Konopi, Innocentia, Beaman, Lori, Senkoro, Perpetua, Astle, Barbara, Strobell, Emma and Imafidon, Elvis (2022) 'Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa.' Journal of Human Rights Practice, 14 (3). pp. 838-858.

Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl, Astle, Barbara, Ero, Ikponwosa, Imafidon, Elvis and Strobell, Emma (2022) 'Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania.' Foundations of Science, 27 (2). pp. 719-740.

Imafidon, Elvis (2022) 'Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference.' Nursing Philosophy, 23 (3). e12393.

Imafidon, Elvis (2021) 'African Communitarian Philosophy of Personhood and Disability: The Asymmetry of Value and Power in Access to Healthcare.' International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 4 (1). pp. 46-57.

Imafidon, Elvis (2018) 'Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured?' Synthesis Philosophica, 33 (1). pp. 165-177.

Imafidon, Elvis (2017) 'Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent.' Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 38 (2). pp. 163-177.

Imafidon, Elvis (2011) 'Fundamental Questions about Nothing.' Synthesis Philosophica, 26 (2). pp. 309-322.

Imafidon, Elvis (2010) 'Heidegger’s Approach to Being: Man as the Fundament of Ontology.' Kaygı. Uludağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Journal of Philosophy, 14. pp. 27-43.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Imafidon, Elvis (2022) Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field. Europe Talks Solidarity [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]