Welcome to Donald Mark C. Ude (Epoché)’s ScholarSpace!
PhD (Philosophy) from KU Leuven, Belgium (2021)
Current position: FWO Research Fellow and Teaching Staff at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium (Research unit – RIPPLE).
Studied at the University of Nigeria (BA Philosophy – Summa Cum Laude), Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya (BA Religion – Summa Cum Laude), and the University of Alberta, Canada (MA Philosophy).
Recipient of a number of research fellowship awards, notably from FWO (Belgium) and Humboldt (Germany).
Research interests: African Philosophy, Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory, Non-Western Knowledge Systems, Critical Theory (esp. Habermas), Philosophy of Race, Social/Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion and Culture, Modernity, and Post-secularity.
Articles featured in Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy Today, South African Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Forum, and several other important journals.
Author of Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity (Routledge, 2024).
At freer moments, he writes on socio-political issues in Africa, using Nigerian dailies and Catholic newspapers as platforms.