DR. OLUFEMI TAIWO

Since the year 1991, Dr. Olufemi Taiwo has been Associate Professor of Philosophy, at Loyola University.

Educated in both Nigeria and Canada, Dr. Taiwo obtained his BA, First Class Honours in History & Philosophy from the University of Ife in Osun State Nigeria in 1978; and 3 years later, he earned his first MA in Philosophy. Dr. Taiwo then went on to complete his graduate studies at the University of Toronto where he earned not only a second MA in Philosophy in 1982, but also his PhD in Philosophy in 1986.

From 1986-1990, he taught at his alma mater, and the years 1988-1989 saw him serving, as a Staff Development Fellow under the Canadian Nigerian Programme in Women's Studies (Mount St.Vincent University & the Dalhousie Centre for International Studies.)

Dr. Taiwo has been the recipient of a number of awards, among which, a Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University's African Studies & Research Centre. His areas of Specialization include the Philosophy of Law, Social & Political Philosophy, Marxism, and African Philosophy.

One of the founders of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies, and of the International Society for the Study of Africa, he is a very active member of the American Philosophical Association: He has served on its Committee for International Cooperation, is the current editor of its Newsletter on Philosophy and International Cooperation, and in April 1996, he organized its 50th Anniversary's Distinguished Fellow Lecture.

Dr. Taiwo is the author of Legal Naturalism: Marxist Theory of Law. He has published in a wide variety of journals, from the philosophical to the literary, and is currently working on a collaborative project on Yoruba Art and Aesthetics.

Dr. Taiwo is a critical thinker whose rootedness in the centrality of Africa and the African experience allow him to harmoniously bring to his Philosophical scholarship both Critical Race Theory and Critical Legal Theory.

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, I GIVE YOU DR. OLUFEMI TAIWO.

Introduction by Dr. Esmeralda Thornhill, Halifax, February 2000