Books
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2024). Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity: An Igbo Response. London: Routledge.
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2010). Be Careful with the Bible: A Critical Analysis of the Fundamentalist Approach to Scripture and Christianity. Owerri: Oscar Publishers.
Peer-reviewed Articles
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (Accepted, 24/04/2025). ” Colonialism, Modernity, and African Agency: Does Decoloniality Still Make Sense?” Africa Today (Forthcoming).
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2025). “Solidarity as a Political Resource: Keeping it Real, Feasible, and Effective.” Philosophy and Social Criticism. 0(0):1-18 DOI: 10.1177/01914537251377697 (OnlineFirst). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01914537251377697
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2024). “The ‘Ethnophilosophy’ Problem: How the Idea of ‘Social Imaginaries’ may Remedy it.” The Philosophical Forum 55: 71–86. DOI:10.1111/phil.12353.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phil.12353
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2023). “Is the Igbo (African) Metaphysics of Death Heideggerian? Some Critical Insights.” South African Journal of Philosophy 42 (1): 1-12, DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2207851.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02580136.2023.2207851
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2022). “The Sense of Interconnectedness in African Thought-patterns: In Search of a More Useful Philosophical Idiom.” Philosophy Today 66 (4):701 –723.https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/citations?openform&fp=philtoday&id=philtoday_2022_0066_0004_0707_0723
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2022). “Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis.” Theory, Culture, & Society 39 (6): 3–19. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632764211054123
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2021). “Modernity and the Igbo Lifeworld: Theorizing the Modernization Dynamic of the Igbo World from the Habermasian Standpoint.” Philosophia Africana 20 (2): 129–152.https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/philosophia-africana/article-abstract/20/2/129/263728/Modernity-and-the-Igbo-Lifeworld-Theorizing-the
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2021). “‘Cunning of Reason’ and the Igbo Concept of Chi: Towards a Philosophical Rapprochement with Hegel.” South African Journal of Philosophy 40 (1): 34–45.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02580136.2021.1885910
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2018). “Kwasi Wiredu’s Critique of Marxism: Its Philosophical Application to the ‘African Socialism’ via Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Touré.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (5): 181–207.
(Upcoming)
2 articles under review.
Book chapters
- Ude, Donald Mark C. (2019). “A.J.V. Obinna’s Concept of ‘Filiation’: A Resource for Political/Social Philosophy and Critical Theory”. In Kenneth Ameke & Samuel Uzoukwu (eds.), Emerging Conversations on Theofiliation: Essays in Honour of Archbishop Anthony J.V. Obinna, pp. 311-324. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris.
Book Reviews
- Review of Development and Modernity in Africa: An Intercultural Philosophical Perspective, by Joseph C.A. Agbakoba, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 67 (1) (March 2022): 117–121.
Other intellectual outputs:
- I frequently contribute – and have published – over 50 opinion pieces on religious, social, and political issues in widely-read Nigerian newspapers, especially Vanguard (https://www.vanguardngr.com/) and the Leader (owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Nigeria).