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Nigerian poet (–)

Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti (24 August &#;– 17 June )^[1][2] was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor,^[3][4] as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[5][6]

Life and career

Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in ^[1] In , he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in ^[1][3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in ^[7][8] His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility".^[1] From he taught philosophy at Wellesley College in the US with a particular focus on personhood and African philosophy.^[1]

Menkiti sought to emphasise the social nature of personhood, expressed in the notion "I am, because we are".^[1] In doing so he attempted