Elvis Imafidon

Elvis Imafidon is a Nigerian scholar of African philosophy.

Career Born in Nigeria with albinism, Elvis Imafidon graduated from Ambrose Alli University (in Ekpoma, Edo State), and in 2014 he earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Ibadan. Imafidon specialises in African philosophy generally, and has primarily conducted research about ontology, ethics, and epistemology from an African perspective. Imafidon has written several books; he has stated that his experience of living with albinism in Nigeria (which is often highly stigmatised and persecuted) led him to write African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism (2018),

As of 2026, Imafidon is Head of the School of History, Religion, and Philosophy at SOAS University of London and a research associate of the African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. He also chairs the Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, and is a fellow of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (2017) and the British Academy (2024/25).

Selected works The following are some books and journal articles that Elvis Imafidon has authored or edited: