Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa (Series in Politics) - Tapa dura

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Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer and has taught philosophy for several years at the University of Ghana. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Ibadan, a B.Phil. in Philosophy from the Urban Pontifical University, Italy, and an MA and a PhD in Philosophy from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. He is the University of Ghana external assessor for affiliate institutions on Logic and Critical Thinking. He was the Chair of Long Essay, Library and Graduate Studies, at the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Canberra, Australia, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Deliberation. He has published in many high-impact journals and presses, including Cambridge and Oxford University Presses, and is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. He is the winner of the 2018 University of Ghana Humanities Provost Publication Award in the Mid-Career Category.

Edwin E. Etieyibo (PhD) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he has been since 2012. Previously, he taught at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, Canada before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand in 2012. His PhD dissertation was on "David Gauthier's Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession," which presents a critical examination of Gauthier's account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He specializes and have interest in ethics, social and political philosophy, African philosophy, social contract theories/and history of, history of philosophy, epistemology, early modern philosophy, Descartes, philosophy of law, applied ethics, African socio-political economy, philosophy of education and with children. He is the co-author of Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (2017, Hamilton Books), guest editor of the South African Journal of Philosophy special issue on "Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa," and editor of several books: Perspectives in Social Contract Theory (2018, CRVP); Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum (2018, Routledge); and Methods, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy.