Emmanuel Eze: Bereavement Notice
Adibe, Clement
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Sent: Tue 1/1/2008 8:05 PM
To: Adibe, Clement
Subject: Bereavement Notice
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death on December 30th, of Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Below is his obituary notice. Our deepest sympathies to his family. May he rest in peace.
Professor Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (1963-2007) died after a short illness on December 30, 2007 in Lewisburg, Pa at age 44.
Emmanuel was born in Agbokete, in what was Northern Region of Nigeria to Nigerian parents, Daniel and Rebecca, who are Igbo and devout Catholics. Because of his parents' ethnicity and religion they fled the North during the Nigerian Civil War to Nsukka, in the eastern part of the country.
Emmanuel was educated by Jesuits in colleges in Benin City, Nigeria and Kimwenza, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). He attended St. Patrick's Elementary School in Iheakpu-Awka from 1970 to 1976. In 1982 he graduated from Igbo-Eze Secondary School. From September of the same year he worked as Clerk at the Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture in Funtua.
In 1983 Eze resigned the job and enrolled at St. Ignatius Jesuit Novitiate in Benin City. From 1985 to 1987 he studied at S. Pierre Canisius College in Kimwenza, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He then taught French language at Bishop Kelly College in Benin City for an academic year before moving to New York. He received his Masters (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from Fordham University.
In 1993 Emmanuel joined the philosophy faculty at Bucknell University, and in 1995 married Katherine. Together they had three children, Udoka, Amaka, and Nnamdi. In 2000, Emmanuel moved to Chicago, Illinois to take up a position as Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University where Emmanuel was a well-known specialist in postcolonial philosophy. He was the founding editor of Philosophia Africana, and also published influential postcolonial histories of philosophy in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. From 1996-7 he was a post-doctoral visiting scholar at Cambridge University, UK (1996-1997). He also held visiting appointments at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, the New School for Social Research, New York (1997) and at the University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa (2003). His latest book, On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism will appear posthumously with Duke University Press.
Emmanuel is survived by his three children, Udoka, Amaka, and Nnamdi, their mother, Katherine Faull, and by his extensive family in Nigeria. A private funeral will be held at the Lewisburg Cemetary.
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Elias Bongmba
I am shocked and deeply saddened by the news of the passing away of
Professor Emmanuel Eze. Professor Eze has contributed significantly to
philosophy and African philosophy through his many publications and
critical perspective on race theory. Eze who was also an engaging
panelist and an insightful dialogue partner felt at home in different
area and the vast literature in philosophy. He has given me critical
feedback on Levinas, and more recently on political philosophy in
Africa. He will be greatly missed by all, especially the Africana
philosophy family. My thoughts are with his family. May his soul rest in
peace.
Elias Bongmba
Ayotunde Bewaji said the following on 1/2/2008 4:04 PM:
> This is rather sad, sudden and gruesome. May his soul rest in peace.
>
> */"Adibe, Clement" <CAD...@depaul.edu>/* wrote:
>
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Emmanuel Eze: Bereavement Notice
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:58:14 -0600
> From: "Adibe, Clement" <CAD...@depaul.edu>
> To: <USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>
>
> Dear Sisters & Brothers,
>
> It is with deep regret that I forward to you this surprising
> obituary announcement from my university of my dear colleague,
> Professor Emmanuel Eze. Most of you will remember Emma as an
> extraordinarily diligent colleague and first rate scholar and
> teacher. Emma was always reserved but deeply, deeply passionate
> about Africa's place in the vast world of global knowledge. We'll
> all miss him a great deal.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Clement Eme Adibe, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Political Science
> DePaul University
> 990 W. Fullerton, Suite 2200
> Chicago, IL 60614
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> *Subject:* Bereavement Notice
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> (1991); MA Philosophy (1983); BA Philosophy, Ife (1979)MA Distance
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