Ojochogwu S. Abdul

Ojochogwu S. Abdul is a scholar, researcher, philosopher, public intellectual, futurist, bright green environmentalist, and social observer and commentator. As an individual passionate and active about the actualization of the African Enlightenment, he has initiated and supported projects for the growth of a new, thinking youth generation in Africa, starting from his home country Nigeria.

As part of his professional career, Abdul has served as Administrative Secretary/Junior Researcher at the Center for Youth Orientation and Enlightenment (CYOEN), an NGO concerned with providing guidance, inspiration and leadership training to youths, and as Researcher Assistant to the Conference of Democratic Scholars (CODES), a think-tank and consultancy forum for the formation and dissemination of developmental social and political philosophies in Nigeria.

He also served for a number of years as Programme and Planning Officer for CODES Global Foundation for Climate Change, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, this being an offshoot of CODES, and an organization with a focus on harnessing the intersections between political systems and environmental ideology/causes to push for progress in the areas of governance, environmental protection through eco-friendly technological innovation and enterprise, and overall sustainable socio-economic development. While serving with the Foundation, Abdul played a key role in designing the bright green environmentalist blueprint which led to the establishment of the Center for Environmental Studies-Nasarawa State University, Keffi (CES-NSUK).

Abdul is, furthermore, a supporter of disability rights activism and occasionally writes for the Qualitative Magazine, a platform for disability rights advocacy in Nigeria. Among several other projects, his enthusiasm for the growth of a thinking culture among contemporary and future African youth generations influenced his co-founding of Thinkers Pub Abuja, a club for young bright minds acting to promote rational and critical thought in Nigeria and beyond. He is also co-founder of the Enlightenment Transhumanist Forum of Nigeria (a Nigerian futurist group), serves as the United States Transhumanist Party’s Foreign Ambassador for Nigeria, and plays a role as member of the executive team of the Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFDs).

O.S. Abdul currently lectures in Philosophy at Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, where he works in several areas to include epistemology, philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of social science, theories of globalization, contemporary losophy, and philosophy of development. He is also a supporter of the international call to take philosophy down to pre-tertiary (primary and secondary school) levels, and have philosophy taught to children and teens as an academic discipline helpful in sharpening their curiosity and building their mental and critical thinking skills from an early enough stage.