Josias Tembo
Doctoral Candidate
Bio
Josias Tembo is completing his PhD at Radboud University in the department of ethics and political philosophy. He has a BA in philosophy from St John Vianney Seminary, BA Honours philosophy and master degree in philosophy on African identity from the University of Pretoria. His PhD is on framing the trans-Atlantic sociopolitical entanglements of race and religion. He is interested in and written on critical philosophy of race, African philosophy, decolonial and postcolonial theories, and social and political philosophy.
Published articles and book chapters:
Tembo, J. (2022). Do African Postcolonial Theories Need an Epistemic Decolonial Turn? Postcolonial Studies, 25 (1), 35-53. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030582
Tembo, J. (2022). Race-Religion Constellations: An Argument for a Trans-Atlantic Interactive Relational Approach. Critical Research on Religion, 10 (2). doi: 10.1177/20503032221102443 Full text
Tembo, J. (2020). Hegel’s Lord- Bondsman Dialectic and the African: A Critical Appraisal of Achille Mbembe’s Colonial Subjects. In U Kistner & P Van Haute (Eds.), Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon (pp. 71-92). Johannesburg: Wits University Press
Tembo, J. & Gerber, S. (2019). Toward a Postcolonial Universal Ontology: Notes on the Thought of Achille Mbembe. In E. Imafidon (Ed.), Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (Handbooks in Philosophy) (pp. 1-22). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04941-6_8-1
Tembo, J. (2018). Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault's Self-Styling and African Identity. Phronimon, 19 (1). doi: 10.25159/2413-3086/2121
Forthcoming publications: In press
Tembo, J. (2022). Unveiling the Entanglements of Western Christianity and Racialisation in Africa. Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.
Topolski, A.R. & Tembo, J. (2022). Exploring the Entanglement of Race and Religion in Africa. Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.
Research Networks/Centres
Race-Religion Constellation Project (Radboud University)
The Race, Religion, and Secularism Network (Inter-Universities Network)
Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (Uppsala University)
Radboud Centre for Philosophy and Society (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Projects
Global Perspectives on the Race-Religion Constellation
Researchers: Josias Tembo
Publications
Exploring the Entanglement of Race and Religion in Africa
By Anya Topolski and Josias Tembo
December 2022
Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies
Race-Religion Constellations: An Argument for a Trans-Atlantic Interactive Relational Approach
By Josias Tembo
July 2022
Critical Research on Religion
Do African Postcolonial Theories Need an Epistemic Decolonial Turn?
By Josias Tembo
April 2022
Postcolonial Studies
Hegel’s Lord- Bondsman Dialectic and the African: A Critical Appraisal of Achille Mbembe’s Colonial Subjects
By Josias Tembo
January 2020
U Kistner & P Van Haute (Eds.), Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon (pp. 71-92). Johannesburg: Wits University Press
Toward a Postcolonial Universal Ontology: Notes on the Thought of Achille Mbembe.
By Josias Tembo
January 2019
E. Imafidon (Ed.), Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (Handbooks in Philosophy) (pp. 1-22). Cham: Springer
Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault's Self-Styling and African Identity
By Josias Tembo
September 2018
Phronimon
Josias Tembo
Doctoral Candidate