Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, National Open University of Nigeria (October, 2021 – till date)

Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (August, 2023 – July, 2026

Agada, A., Ofuasia, E. & Ikuli, B.Y (eds.) (2025). Contemporary African Metaphysical Thought. London: Palgrave Macmillan https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-African-Metaphysical-Thought-Agada/dp/3031739620

Ofuasia, E. (2025). Event Metaphysics in Lao-Tzu’s Notion of Tao and Ọ̀rúnmìlà’s Concept of Ìwà. In M. Whitaker & J.O. Chimakonam (Eds.), Contemporary Debates in African and Western Philosophy: Analytic and Intercultural Approaches (pp. 307-326). London: Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/contemporary-debates-in-african-and-western-philosophy-9781350334014/

Ofuasia, E. (2024). Ìwà: The process-relational dimension to African metaphysics. Cham: Springer International Publishing https://link.springer.com/book/9783031763915

Ofuasia, E. (2024). Helen Verran and the question of African logic. History and Philosophy of Logic 45(4), 498-512 https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2024.2426107

Ofuasia, E. (2024). Between Ifá’s complementary logic and Jaina perspectival pluralism.” Ezumezu: African Perspectives on Logic, Transhumanism and AI Ethics 1(1), 58-79 https://cspafrica.org/ezumezu-ft-issues/

Ofuasia, E. (2024). African philosophy of religion and western monotheism. Journal for the Academic Study Of Religion 37(2), 267-269 https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JASR/issue/view/2656

Ofuasia, E. (2024). Reflections on Victoria Harrison’s eastern philosophy of religion. Journal of World Philosophies 9(1), 143-146 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/5917

Ofuasia, E. (2024). The coherence of the belief in the existence of evil in traditional Yorùbá theology: A process-relational analysis. Review of Ecumenical Studies 16(1), 429-458 https://sciendo.com/de/issue/RESS/16/1

Ofuasia, E. & Ibiyemi S.O. (2024). An inquiry into the “maleness” of God in African traditional religions: The Igbo and Yorùbá as illustrations. Journal of Africana Religions 12(1), 86-103 https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.12.1.0086

Ofuasia, E. & Schumacher, H. (2023). “Die before you die: A dialogue on death and rebirth. Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation 5 https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/die-before-you-die/

Ofuasia, E. (2023). Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá literary corpus? Religions 14(11), 1416 https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111416

Ofuasia, E. (2023). Witchcraft as Illustrated in the Ifá Literary Corpus: Implications for Contemporary Africa(ns). In E. Uchendu, E.O. Onogwu & C. Agbo (Eds). Witchcraft in Africa: Meanings, Factors and Practices (pp. 91-106) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9026-7

Dasaolu, B.O., Ofuasia, E. and Oladipupo, S.L. (2023). Is Ifá divination girded by logic? A case for ezumezu logic. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies – Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity 18(2), 39-55 https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2230255

Ofuasia, E. (2022). “Who/what neglected the monotheism?”: A panentheistic rejoinder to Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe on traditional African religion.” Philosophia Africana 21(2), 78-99 https://doi.org/10.5325/philafri.21.2.0078

Ofuasia, E. (2022). Some comments on Ada Agada’s philosophy of consolation. Journal of world philosophies 7(1), 170-173 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/issue/view/130

Ofuasia, E. (2022). Logic and African philosophy: Seminal essays on African systems of thought. History and Philosophy of Logic 43(3), 303-305 https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2021.1988431

Dasaolu, B.O., Ofuasia, E & Ibiyemi S.O. (2022). Perceptions of ectogenesis among prominent African and western feminists. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies – Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity 17(2), 84-99 https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2022.2128839

Ofuasia, E. (2022). Why the externalist-internalist distinction over the African development discourse is a dead end. Arumaruka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 2(1), 1-23 https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v2i1.1

Ofuasia, E. (2022). W.V.O. Quine’s “indeterminacy thesis of radical translation” and the logic problem in the expression of African thoughts. Yoruba Studies Review 7(1), 1-14 https://doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v7i1.131428

Ofuasia, E. & Ogbonnaya, L.U. (2022). Ezumezu logic: A clarification and defense. JOCAP: Journal of Contemporary African Philosophy 3(1). 45-53 https://jocap.domuni.eu/jocap/article/view/ezumezu-logic-a-clarification-and-defense

Ofuasia, E and Ibiyemi, S.O. (2022). How African logic can dissipate the question of originality and knowledge production in Africa. In D. Masaka (Ed.). Knowledge production and the search for epistemic liberation in Africa (pp. 99-110) Cham: Springer International Publishing https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07965-8_8

Ofuasia, E. (2022). The challenge of the “end of metaphysics” for ethnophilosophy: A discourse on the process implication of the metaphysics of terror. In A. Agada (Ed.). Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy (pp. 271-286). New York: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78897-1_18

Ofuasia, E. (2022). An argument for the non-existence of the devil in African traditional religion. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religions 11(1), 57-76 doi: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.5

Ofuasia, E., Oladipupo, S.L & Akomolafe, M.A. (2021). Is it possible to do postmodern philosophy unbeknownst?”: On Sophie Oluwole’s and Maulana Karenga’s “deconstruction” of the Ifá literary corpus. Philosophia Africana 20(2), 83-106. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/philosophia-africana/issue/20/2

Ofuasia, E. (2021). Ezumezu: A system of logic for African philosophy and studies. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies – Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity 16(1), 22-24 https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2021.1889926

Ofuasia, E. (2021). Verificationism and falsificationism from an African indigenous knowledge perspective. In O.T. Afisi (Ed.). Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development. (pp. 235-246). New York: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74214-0_20

Ofuasia, E. (2021). The socio-economic pedagogy of computerised Ifá divination: A conversation with Professor Danoye O. Laguda.” International Scientific Journal of Universities and Leadership 2(12), 160-169 https://doi.org/10.31874/2520-6702-2021-12-2-160-169

Ofuasia, E. (2021). How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa. South African Journal of Philosophy 40(4), 350-361 https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2021.1996141

Ofuasia, E. (2021). On the distinction between Friedrich Hegel’s dialectics and the logic of conversational thinking. Arumaruka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 1(1), 46-62 DOI: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajct/article/view/221115

Ofuasia, E. (2020). On religious intolerance in Yorùbá society: An exploration of the pluriverse alternative. Alternation 30, 50-72 DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2020/sp30a4

Ofuasia, E. (2020). The language of faith in southern Africa: Spirit world, power, community, holism. International Review of Mission 109(2), 367-368 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irom.12342

Ofuasia, E. (2020). Monotheism and metaphysics in the Yorùbá thought system: A process alternative. JOCAP: Journal of Contemporary African Philosophy 1(1), 43-58. https://jocap.domuni.eu/jocap/issue/view/philosophy-identity-and-liberation

Ofuasia, E. (2019). John Dewey’s and Julius Nyerere’s views on education and the implication of their ideas for African development. Philosophy of Education 25(2), 127-141 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2019-25-2-7

Ofuasia, E. (2019). The metaphysical implications of the parallels between traditional Yorùbá theology and process theology. LASU Journal of Philosophy 2(1), 69-83 https://www.lajop.com/journal-articles/

Ofuasia, E. (2019). Between fiction and fact: Further reflections on Jonathan Chimakonam’s critique of Kwesi Tsri on blackness and race. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 8(3), 41-58 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v8i3.3

Ofuasia, E. (2019). Unveiling ezumezu logic as a framework for process ontology and Yorùbá ontology. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 8(2), 63-84 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v8i2.6

Ofuasia, E. (2019). Ifá divination as an exercise in deconstructionism. South African Journal of Philosophy 38(3), 330-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2019.1656961

Ofuasia, E. (2018). On the Interests of non-human animals in Yorùbá culture: A critique of Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 9(2), 6-21 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v9i2.41186

Ofuasia, E. (2018). On the postmodern groundwork of Yorùbá ethno-epistemology and Ifá divination. LASU Journal of Philosophy 1(2), 325-45 https://www.lajop.com/journal-articles/

Ofuasia, E. & Okogie-Ojieko, S.E. (2017). A further reflection on Martin Heidegger’s meditation on technology within 21st century mode of being. Philosophia: Journal of Philosophy and Culture 17, 29-44. https://philosophia-bg.com/archive/philosophia-17-2017/a-further-reflection-on-martin-heideggers-contemplation-on-technology-within-21st-century-mode-of-being/

Ofuasia, E. & Dasaolu, B.O. (2017). Ludwig Wittgenstein’s critique of metaphysics: Implication and relevance for African philosophy. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 10(7), 68-87 https://www.jpanafrican.org/vol10no7.htm

Ofuasia, E. (2017). On the dearth of God in Aristotle’s substance metaphysics. Philosophia: Journal of Philosophy and Culture 15, 145-161.https://philosophia-bg.com/archive/philosophia-15-2017/on-the-dearth-of-god-in-aristotles-substance-metaphysics-a-process-relational-riposte/

Akande, M.A. & Ofuasia, E. (2017). The chicken fallacy and the ethics of cruelty to non-human animals. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 8 (1), 7-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v8i1.31079

Ofuasia, E. (2016). Ori in Yoruba thought system: A Humean critique. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9(10), 185-200. https://www.jpanafrican.org/vol9no10.htm

Ofuasia, E. & Ojo, O.G. (2016). On the Gettier problem and Yoruba ‘epistemology’: Analytic forays into ethno-philosophy. Philosophia: Journal of Philosophy and Culture 14, 146-165. https://philosophia-bg.com/archive/philosophia-142016/on-the-gettier-problem-and-yoruba-epistemology-analytic-forays-into-ethno-philosophy/

Process (African) Metaphysics; African Philosophy (of Religion); Animal Welfarism, African Logic; Ifá and Studies in Mysticism and Spiritual Philosophies.

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Co-Recipient of Research Grant [€5, 000] (2022)
Lagos African Cluster Centre (LACC) Institute of African and Diaspora Studies,
University of Lagos, Lagos
Funded Project: “Moral Challenges and Technological Prospects of Computerised Ifá Divination for Traditional Diviners in South-West Nigeria.”

Recipient of Culture & Animal Foundation (CAF) Research Grant [US$ 1, 300] (2022)
Funded Project: “Animal Sacrifice in Traditional African Religion” https://cultureandanimals.org/grantee/emmanuel-ofuasia/

Recipient of the Travel Bursary Competition for Conference Participation (2022)
The Second Global Philosophy of Religion Conference: Death and Immortality
A Collaboration between the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K. June 28-30, 2022

Recipient of the English Language Support Fund [GBP £1, 000] (2021)
Global Philosophy of Religion Project Research Grant
A Collaboration between the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.
Grant Reference: 7.16.18.104 https://www.global-philosophy.org/grant-winners-2021

Recipient of the Dr. D. K. Olukoya Academic Award of Excellence [NGN N500, 000] (2013)
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries,
Campus Fellowship,
International Headquarters,
13, Olasimbo Street,
Yaba, Lagos.

Lagos State University Scholarship [NGN N45, 000] (2009/2010 academic session)
Lagos State University,
Ojo, Lagos.
Nigeria.

Lagos State University Scholarship [NGN N45, 000] (2008/2009 academic session)
Lagos State University,
Ojo, Lagos.
Nigeria.