Trends and Issues in African Philosophy

Biographical notes

Frederick Ochieng-Odhiambo (Author)

The Author: F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo received his Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently affiliated with the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, where he developed and teaches courses in African philosophy. He previously taught African philosophy, logic, and social-political philosophy at the University of Nairobi, the Institute of Philosophy (Lang’ata, Kenya), and the National University of Lesotho (southern Africa). His research interest is African philosophy with a focus on philosophic sagacity, an area in which he has written several journal articles. He is the author of Logic and Induction (1996), African Philosophy: An Introduction (1997), Introductory Symbolic Logic (2003), Conversations in Philosophy (2008), and Foundations of Ethics (2009).