Ifeanyi menkiti biography
Ifeanyi menkiti biography
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Ifeanyi Menkiti
Nigerian poet (1940–2019)
Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti (24 August 1940 – 17 June 2019)[1][2] was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor,[3][4] as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5][6]
Life and career
Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940.[1] In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964.[1][3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974.[7][8] His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility".[1] From 1974 he taught philosophy at Wellesley College in the US with a particular focus on personhood and African philosophy.[1]
Menkiti sought to emphasise the social nature of personhood, expressed in the notion "I am, because we