Welcome to this site and you are welcome to download and read any of the articles below! This is not a complete list of my publications. For that, please visit my online CV. Here, only the articles that are available for free online are listed, and they are listed according to topic (not according to publication type and chronology as in the CV). Some are pdf\u2019s of the published version (when allowed by copyright), and others are pre-publication versions of the text (according to publisher\u2019s rules). Some of the \u201cfull text\u201d links will take you to a page on PhilPapers, a nonprofit website based in Canada and affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, where you will have a chance to download the article. Also, two of my books can be read for free, online.<\/p>\n
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Africa \u2013 Philosophy, History and Politics, General<\/a><\/p>\n African Sage Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n Gandhi and Nonviolence<\/a><\/p>\n Social and Political Philosophy \u2013 Hannah Arendt and others<\/a><\/p>\n Cross-Cultural philosophy \u2013 especially East Asian, Latin American, Native American<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSophie Oluwole\u2019s Contribution to African Philosophy,\u201d Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy<\/em>, 35\/2 (Spring\/May 2020), 231-242. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWomen\u2019s Empowerment: The Insights of Wangari Maathai,\u201d Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>, 9\/3 (December 2013), 277-292.\u00a0 [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWomen\u2019s Rights in Kenya since Independence: The Complexities of Kenya\u2019s Legal System and the Opportunities of Civic Engagement,\u201d Journal of Social Encounters<\/em>, thematic issue on Democracy and Political Change, 6\/1 (2022), 32-48. [full text<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cCan Ubuntu Ethics Help to Foster Humane Business Management Practices While Leaving the Global Capitalist Context Intact?\u201d in Workineh Kelbessa and Tenna Dewo, Eds., Philosophical Responses to Global Challenges with African Examples<\/em>. Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, II, in series, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series II: African Philosophical Studies. Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Value and Philosophy, 207-260. ISBN 9781565183520 [full text]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cShould Women Love \u2018Wisdom\u2019? Evaluating the Ethiopian Wisdom Tradition,\u201d Research in African Literatures<\/em>, 30:2 (Summer 1999), pp.165\u2013181, republished in Gutema, Bekele and Charles Verharen (eds.), African Philosophy in Ethiopia (Philosophy in Africa Now series).<\/em> Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Philosophical Studies, 2012, pp. 159-181. The same reprint appears in a U.S. published version of the book, by Gutema, Bekele and Charles Verharen (eds.), African Philosophy in Ethiopia: Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, II<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2013, 139-158. [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cStrategic Nonviolence in Africa: Reasons for Its Embrace and Later Abandonment by Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Kaunda.\u201d In David Boersema and Katy Gray Brown, ed. Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace<\/em>. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 75\u2013101. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cThe Struggle for Recognition in the Philosophy of Axel Honneth, Applied to the Current South African Situation and Its Call for an \u2018African Renaissance,\u2019\u201d Philosophy and Social Criticism<\/em>, 29:5 (2003), pp. 537\u2013561. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cUnfair Distribution of Resources in Africa: What Should Be Done about the Ethnicity Factor?\u201d Human Studies<\/em>, 26:1 (January 2003), 21\u201340. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cMaasai Concepts of Personhood: The Roles of Recognition, Community, and Individuality,\u201d International Studies in Philosophy<\/em>, 34:2 (2002), pp. 57\u201382. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cAkan Chiefs and Queen Mothers in Contemporary Ghana: Examples of Democracy, or Accountable Authority?\u201d International Journal of African Studies<\/em>, 3:1 (Fall 2001), 63\u201383. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n Gail M. Presbey and George F. McLean, \u201cForeword: In Memory: The Significance of Claude Sumner SJ\u2019s Contribution to African Philosophy,\u201d in Gutema, Bekele and Charles Verharen (eds.), African Philosophy in Ethiopia: Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, II<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2013, vii-xiv. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cH. Odera Oruka on Moral Reasoning,\u201d Journal of Value Inquiry<\/em>, 34:4 (December 2000), pp. 517\u2013528. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cAfrican Philosophers on Global Wealth Distribution,\u201d in Gail M. Presbey, et.al., ed. Thought and Practice in African Philosophy. <\/em>Nairobi, Kenya: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2002, pp. 283\u2013300. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cMaasai Rejection of the Western Paradigm of Development: A Foucaultian Analysis.\u201d In Cheryl Hughes and Yeager Hudson, ed. Cultural Integrity and World Community<\/em>. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000, 339-359. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cSecurity Through Mutual Understanding and Co-existence or Military Might?: Somali and U.S. Perspectives\u201d in Matt Meyer (Ed.),\u00a0 Seeds Bearing Fruit: Pan African Peace Action in the 21st Century<\/em>, Africa World Press, 2011, pp. 323-351. [abstract] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cThe Best of Both Worlds: Philosophy in African Languages and English Translation,\u201d APA Newsletter on Indigenous Philosophy <\/em>16\/2 (Spring 2017), 7-14. [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n Book review of Peter Little,\u00a0Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives<\/em>. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), in\u00a0Ethique\u00a0&\u00a0Economique\/ Ethics and Economics<\/em>\u00a013\/1 (2016), 94-95. (online<\/a>)<\/p>\n Book review essay on Pedro Machado,\u00a0Oceans of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1850.\u00a0<\/em>Cambridge University Press, 2014.\u00a0For\u00a0Nidan: International Journal for the Study of Hinduism<\/em>, 27\/1-2 (July\/December 2015), 71-79 (online<\/a>).\u00a0Republished as a book chapter in\u00a0Kalpana\u00a0Hiralal\u00a0(Ed.),\u00a0Global Hindu Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives<\/em>, Delhi:\u00a0Manohar\u00a0Publishers, 2016, 177-188.<\/p>\n Jonathan Reynolds,\u00a0Sovereignty and Struggle: Africa and Africans in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1994.<\/em>\u00a0(African World Histories Series) (New York: Oxford University Press), in\u00a0World History Connected<\/em>, 12\/3 (October 2015),\u00a0http:\/\/worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu\/12.3\/br_presbey.html<\/a><\/p>\n The entire book, Thought and Practice in African Philosophy<\/em> (Konrad Adenaeur Foundation, 2002), for which I am first co-editor, is available online for free at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/collection-anonymous\/browse?fp=sixth-isaps<\/a><\/p>\n Download instructions: for any chapter you choose (and you could begin with the first and do this for each chapter), click “view” right underneath the chapter title. It takes you to a new page where you see the first page of the chapter. But there is a box on the upper right hand side that says “This article is available for free preview” and underneath that it shows a blue box that says “Show document.” Click on “Show document.” The\u00a0pdf\u00a0of the chapter opens. You can read it online just then, or download for future use. To download, hover in the upper right hand corner of the screen, some icons will show up, one of them has an arrow pointing down. That is the download icon.\u00a0Click on that.\u00a0It should ask you where you want to save it. Create a new file folder\u00a0on your computer, and download all the chapters to that file folder. Each time you download you may want to rename the file with the name of the author, so you don’t get them mixed up. In this way you can get the whole book. By the way, here is a book review of\u00a0of\u00a0Thought and Practice in African Philosophy<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Mkhwanazi, E. F., and M. B. Ramose in\u00a0Tydskrif\u00a0vir\u00a0letterkunde\u00a042: 2 (2005), 161\u2013175,\u00a0http:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/tvl\/article\/viewFile\/29713\/22652<\/a><\/p>\n Gail Presbey, Sandra\u00a0Ochieng\u2019-Springer (University of West Indies at Cave Hill Campus, Barbados) and\u00a0Kunbi\u00a0Adefule\u00a0(Cornell University), \u201cReport on the International Colloquium, \u2018Toward a New Pan-Africanism:\u00a0\u00a0Deploying Anthropology, Archaeology, History and Philosophy in the Service of Africa and the Diaspora,\u2019\u201d University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica, April 24-25, 2014. In the\u00a0American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience\u00a0<\/em>14\/2 (Spring 2015), 1-5.\u00a0http:\/\/www.apaonline.org\/?blacks_newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSage Philosophy,\u201d Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em>, September 2014. Online at: http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/afr-sage\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAfrican Sage Philosophy and Socrates: Midwifery and Method,\u201d International Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>, 42:2, Issue 166 (June 2002), pp. 177\u2013192. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cKenyan Sages on Equality of Sexes,\u201d Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK) Special Issue: Odera Oruka Seventeen Years On.<\/em> New Series, 4\/2, (December 2012), pp.111-145. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cOdera Oruka on Culture Philosophy and its role in the S.M. Otieno Burial Trial\u201d in Odera Oruka in the Twenty-First Century<\/em>, <\/strong>ed. by Reginald M. J. Oduor, Oriare Nyarwath and Francis Owakah. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018, 99-118. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cB\u00e2tir une \u00abculture nationale\u00bb interethnique et interg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnelle au Kenya\u201d\/ \u201cAttempts to create \u2018National Culture\u2019 including Inter-ethnic and Inter-generational Community in Kenya,\u201d Diog\u00e8ne<\/em>\/Diogenes: <\/em>Revue Internationale des Sciences Humaines<\/em> special issue on \u201cCommunity and Africana Philosophy,\u201d Vol. 59, issue # 235-236, 62-80, 2011\/3. (The same article is also published in English, but only the French version is available for free download). [abstract<\/a>– English] [abstract \u2013 French<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cSage Philosophy: Criteria that Distinguish it from Ethnophilosophy and Make It a Unique Approach within African Philosophy,\u201d Philosophia Africana<\/em>, 10:2 (August 2007), 127-160. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cSage Philosophy and Critical Thinking: Creatively Coping with Negative Emotions,\u201d International Journal of Philosophical Practice<\/em>, 2:1 (Spring 2004), pp. 1\u201320. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWho Counts as a Sage? Problems in the Further Implementation of Sage Philosophy,\u201d Quest: Philosophical Discussions<\/em>, XI:1&2 (1997), pp. 53\u201365. [abstract<\/a>] [full text \u2013 Quest<\/a>]\u00a0 See also the World Congress of Philosophy website: [full text- World Congress<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cIs Elijah Masinde a Sage-Philosopher? The Dispute between H. Odera Oruka and Chaungo Barasa.\u201d In Kai Kresse and Anke Graness, eds. Sagacious Reasoning: Henry Odera Oruka in Memoriam<\/em>. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 195\u2013209. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cAkan-H\u00e4uptlinge und K\u00f6nigsm\u00fctter im heutigen Ghana: Beispiele f\u00fcr Demokratie und verantwortliche Autorit\u00e4ten<\/em>?\u201d\u00a0 (Akan Chiefs and Queen Mothers in Contemporary Ghana: Examples of Democracy, or Accountable Authority?), translated by Nausikaa Schirilla, Polylog: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr interkulturelles Philosophieren<\/em>, 1:2 (1998), pp. 43\u201357. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a> – German]<\/p>\n \u201cWays in Which Oral Philosophy is Superior to Written Philosophy: A Look at Odera Oruka\u2019s Rural Sages,\u201d APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience<\/em> (Fall 1996), pp. 6\u201310. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cTrinidad\u2019s Role in the Development of Nonviolent Strategies: Focus on C.L.R. James,\u201d Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research<\/em>, 50\/1 (2025), 22-34. Feb. 5, 2025 – Early view.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHow Nonviolent Movements in the Caribbean Influenced Pan-Africanism,\u201d Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research<\/em>, 48\/2 (2023), 103-116 [abstract<\/em><\/a>], and Online first<\/em><\/a>, May 8, 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cGandhi\u2019s Many Influences and Collaborators,\u201d in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, <\/em>35\/2 (August 2015), 360-369. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cGandhi: The Grandfather of Conflict Transformation,\u201d in Emiko Noma, Tom Hastings, and Rhea DuMont (Eds.), Conflict Transformation:\u00a0 New Voices, New Directions<\/em>, McFarland Press, 2013, pp. 213-224. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cGandhi, Dube and Abdurahman: Collaborations to end Injustice in South Africa,\u201d in World History Bulletin<\/em>, 32\/1 (Spring 2016), 5-11. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>] [online<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cDorothy Day\u2019s Pursuit of Public Peace Through Word and Action,\u201d in\u00a0 R. Greg Moses and Gail Presbey (Eds.), Peace Philosophy and Public Life:\u00a0 Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking<\/em>, Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 268, Rodopi Publishers, 2014, 17-40. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cOdera Oruka and Mohandas Gandhi on Reconciliation,\u201d Polylog: Forum f\u00fcr interkulturelles Philosophieren<\/em>, 34\/2 (2015), 187-208. [full text<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cFranz\u00a0Jagerstatter,\u201d\u00a0On the Edge:\u00a0A\u00a0Detroit Catholic Worker Newsletter<\/em>\u00a0(Winter 2008), pp. 6-7,\u00a0http:\/\/www.dayhouse.org\/ontheedgewinter2008.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWalking with Gandhi in\u00a0India,\u201d\u00a0Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter<\/em>\u00a0(Fall 2006), pp. 1,\u00a012\u201317.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/peacephilosophy.org\/95\/walking-with-gandhi-at-100-by-gail-presbey<\/a><\/p>\n Review of Fred Wilcox, ed., Disciples and Dissidents: Prison Writings of the Prince of Peace Plowshares<\/em>. In Catholic Peace Voice<\/em>, XXVII:1 (Spring 2002), p. 20.\u00a0 The article is also on the Jonah House website, http:\/\/www.jonahhouse.org\/archive\/Presbey,%20Disciples%20&%20Dissidents.htm<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Review of Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer, Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle, and Liberation in Africa<\/em>. Long version In Philosophia Africana<\/em>, 5:2 (August 2002), pp. 85-94; shorter version in Polylog: Forum f\u00fcr interkulturelles Philosophieren<\/em>, 2:1 (2001), pp. 1\u201317, www.polylog.org\/lit\/2.1\/rvw2-en.htm<\/a> ; and shortest version published in The Catholic Worker<\/em> (September\u2013October 2001). DOI: 10.5840\/philafricana2002528or<\/p>\n Review of Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq<\/em>. New York: Penguin, 2006. In Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter<\/em>, 26:2 (Fall 2006), pp. 3\u20136. [full text<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n Kathleen Maas Weigert and Robin J. Crews, eds., Teaching for Justice: Concepts and Models for Service\u2011Learning in Peace Studies<\/em>. In Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter<\/em>, 23:1\u20132 (Spring\u2013Fall 2003), pp. 7\u20139. [full text<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cChallenges of Founding a New Government in Iraq,\u201d Constellations: an International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory<\/em>, 12:4 (December 2005), pp. 521\u2013541. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cCritics of Boers or Africans? Arendt\u2019s Treatment of South Africa in the Origins of Totalitarianism.\u201d In Emmanuel C. Eze, ed. Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader<\/em>. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 162\u2013180. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cHannah Arendt on Power, Consent, and Coercion: Some Parallels to Gandhi\u201d Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi- King Society<\/em> (Fall\u2013Winter 1992\u20131993), pp. 24\u201332. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cArendt on Language and Lying in Politics: Her Insights Applied to the \u2018War on Terror\u2019 and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq,\u201d Peace Studies Journal<\/em> 1\/1 (November 2008), pp. 32-62. \u00a0\u00a0[full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n Gail M. Presbey, Editor,\u00a0Philosophical Perspectives on the \u201cWar on Terrorism.\u201d<\/i> Value Inquiry Book Series vol. 188. New York: Rodopi Publishers, 2007. Twenty articles, 490 pp. In addition to editing, I wrote the preface (pp. xvii\u2013xix), Introduction (pp. 1\u201319), and chapter 9, \u201cIs the United States-Led Occupation of Iraq Part of the \u2018War on Terror\u2019\u201d?, pp. 161\u2013197. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789401204354 F<\/a>ree online<\/a>\u00a0if you sign up for Internet Archive.<\/p>\n \u201cMahmood Mamdani\u2019s Analysis of Colonialism Applied to the U.S.-led War on Iraq,\u201d Polylog:<\/em> Forum for Intercultural Philosophy<\/em>, 5 (2004). [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cCriticisms of Multiparty Democracy: Parallels between Wamba-dia-Wamba and Arendt,\u201d New Political Science<\/em>, 20:1 (1998), pp. 35\u201352. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cGlobalization and the Crisis in Detroit,\u201d in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, <\/em>15\/1-2 (2015), 261-277. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cCrisis, Dispossession and Activism to Reclaim Detroit,\u201d in Philosophy and Crisis: Responding to the Challenges to Ways of Life in the Contemporary World, <\/em>Volume One, Golfo Maggini, Vasiliki Solomou-Papanikolaou, Helen Karabatzaki, and Konstantinos D. Koskeridis (Eds.), Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2017, 121-129. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>] [chapter online, see p. 121<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cSimone Weil y el trabajo manual: Sus ideas Aplicadas al Actual Trabajo de Explotaci\u00f3n\u201d, translation by Ada Frey y Karina Crivelli, <\/strong>Centro Para La Justica Global<\/em>, posted on the web at: https:\/\/www.globaljusticecenter.org\/es\/ponencias\/simone-weil-y-el-trabajo-manual-sus-ideas-aplicadas-al-actual-trabajo-de-explotaci%C3%B3n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSimone Weil On Labor: Her Insights Applied to Current Sweatshop Labor,\u201d Center for Global Justice,<\/em> 2005, on web at: https:\/\/www.globaljusticecenter.org\/es\/ponencias\/simone-weil-y-el-trabajo-manual-sus-ideas-aplicadas-al-actual-trabajo-de-explotaci%C3%B3n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gail M. Presbey, Karsten Struhl, and Richard Olsen (Eds.),\u00a0The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader<\/i>, Second edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000, 648 pp, which has over twenty-five percent new material. With co-authored Instructor\u2019s Guide (217 pp.). Overall input on the book, especially regarding selections on African, African-American, Islamic, Native American, and some South Asian and feminist philosophies. With special responsibility that included writing all introductory material for the chapters on Ethics, Meaning of Life, and Social Justice. \u00a0Free browsing online<\/a>\u00a0with a free Internet Archive account.<\/p>\n \u201cAnt\u00f3n Donoso, in memorium (1932-2018),\u201d\u00a0Inter-American Journal of Philosophy<\/em> 9\/1 (Spring 2018). [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cBukusu and Amazonian Perspectives on Harmonious Relations with the Other,\u201d Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture<\/em>, 23\/1 (2019), 1-54. [full text<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching \u2018Philosophy of Feminism\u2019 from a Global Perspective,\u201d in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy<\/em>, 12\/1 (Fall 2012), 4-9. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching about Racism and Sexism in Introduction to Philosophy Classes,\u201d APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy<\/em> 7:2 (Spring 2008) pp.\u00a0 5-13. [abstract<\/a>] [full text<\/a>]<\/p>\nWRITINGS:<\/h1>\n
Africa \u2013 Philosophy, History and Politics, General<\/h1>\n
African Sage Philosophy<\/h1>\n
Gandhi and Nonviolence<\/h1>\n
Social and Political Philosophy \u2013 Hannah Arendt and others<\/h1>\n
Cross-Cultural philosophy — especially East Asian, Latin American, Native American<\/h1>\n