{"id":8187,"date":"2024-09-19T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/assoc-prof-dr-uchenna-okeja\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:34:58","slug":"assoc-prof-dr-uchenna-okeja","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/assoc-prof-dr-uchenna-okeja\/","title":{"rendered":"Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uchenna Okeja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Associate professor, Rhodes University, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project title:<\/strong><br\/>The public sphere in African political thought<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><br\/>Focusing on analysis of African arenas for deliberation, I aim in my research to demonstrate the possible understandings embedded in these practices that are instructive for democratic theory and practice. I consider this endeavor important for two reasons. The first reason is the need to point out the misunderstandings of these practices in the works of political theorists. The second reason is the need for a reconstructive analysis that could serve as the basis for articulation of a well-founded African political philosophy. It is certainly true that tones of papers and books have been written on the so-called African political condition. From these works, a lot of insights can be gleaned. The major challenge, however, is that Africa is still in search of a model of self-rule that is premised on a plausibly argued political philosophy. This is the goal I am aiming to contribute to in my research. (Uchenna Okeja)        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate professor, Rhodes University, South Africa Research project title:The public sphere in African political thought Research abstract:Focusing on analysis of African arenas for deliberation, I aim in my research to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1677,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8187","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}