Ph.D. in Philosophy, Boston College, 1988. Dissertation title, The Possibility of African Freedom: A Philosophical Exploration 

The basic thrust of the dissertation is to show how core aspects of the thought of Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger can render conceptual service to the ongoing project of African liberation while concurrently articulating a systematic critique of the Eurocentrism which structures the thinking of these icons of the Occidental tradition. 

Director/1st Reader: Professor Oliva Blanchette 2nd Reader: Professor William J. Richardson, S.J., 3rd Reader: Professor Paul Breines (Department of History) 

M.A. in Philosophy, Boston College, 1982 
B.A. in Political Science, University of Massachusetts (Boston), 1979 

Dr. Serequeberhan came to Morgan State University in 2000 as an Associate Professor, was granted Tenure in 2003, and promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2010.

Professor T. Serequeberhan views teaching as a way of helping students discover the questions and experiences that give rise to philosophical inquiry. His courses encourage critical reflection, self-development, and a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical forces that shape human life. In advanced classes, he integrates his research into the learning experience, engaging students in collaborative explorations of philosophical texts and contemporary issues. His scholarship focuses on African philosophy, Continental philosophy, history, colonialism, and the relationship between Western thought and the experiences of formerly colonized peoples. Through both teaching and research, he seeks to foster a richer understanding of humanity and its diverse intellectual traditions.

Sample Articles:

3AM, Serequeberhan Interview

Theoria Article, “Philosophy in the Present Context of Africa”

Benedetta Lanfranchi: Postcolonial--Membe, Serequeberhan, Gordon (Review of Serequeberhan's Work)
Hermeneutical Paradigm in African Philo (Review of Serequeberhan's Work, pp. 99-105)

Publications: Work in Progress

Thinking the Present, a study focused on our contemporary postcolonial situation, our lived “effective-history” (Gadamer), and oriented by core areas of critical convergence in African/Africana and Continental philosophy (under contract, SUNY Press).

 “Africana Philosophy and the Heritage of the Formerly Enslaved,” an exploration of the discourse of Africana philosophy in light of the lived experience of the descendants of the formerly enslaved. 

Publications

2022, Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, 2nd Expanded Edition, with an introduction (Monthly Review Press). An anthology of critical texts that embody the essential core of Cabral’s thinking. 

2015, Existence and Heritage (SUNY Press). The study is focused on an exploration of our global “effective-history” (Gadamer) as it relates to African/Africana and Continental philosophy. It is focused on core issues and key figures. Taking our global-hybrid situation as its point of departure, it probes the hopeful possibilities, of the future, embedded in our lived “effective-history.”    

2012, Marcien Towa’s African Philosophy: Two Texts (Hdri Publishers). Translation, with an introduction, of Marcien Towa’s L’idée d’une philosophie négro-africaine (Yaoundé, Cameroun: Editions CLE, 1979) and “Propositions sur l’identité culturelle” (Présence Africaine, no. 109, 1st Quarter, 1979). Towa is one of the “founding fathers” of the contemporary discourse of African philosophy more of whose work needs to be made available in English. T.  S E R E Q U E B E R H A N         P a g e | 4  

2007, Contested Memory: The Icons of the Occidental Tradition (Africa World Press). Focused on Kant, Hegel, and Marx, this study explores the Eurocentric stance that structures and delimits the social-political and historical thinking of these icons of the modern tradition of Occidental philosophy. 

2000, Our Heritage: The Past in the Present of African-American and African Existence, (Rowman & Littlefield). The study explores how the past “works” in and affects the present of African-American and African existence. 

1994, The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy: Horizon and Discourse (Routledge). This is a ground-breaking/pioneering articulation of the hermeneutical perspective in African philosophy and thus a substantial contribution: a cornerstone of the ongoing debate. 

1991, African Philosophy: The Essential Readings (Paragon House). An anthology of important texts in the contemporary discourse of African philosophy.

Academic Articles:

“Philosophy in the Present Context of Africa,” in Theoria, a journal of social and political theory, issue 168, vol. 68, no. 3, September 2021. file:///C:/Users/nuhad/Downloads/[15585816%20%20Theoria]%20Philosophy%20in%20the%20Present%20Context%20of%20Afr ica%20(27).pdf 

“Africa, Modernity, Freedom,” in Revista de Estudios Africanos, Número Cero, 2019. http://doi.org/10.15366/reauam2019.0.001 

“Africa in a Changing World: An Inventory,” in Monthly Review, vol. 61, no. 8, January 2010. https://monthlyreview.org/2010/01/01/africa-in-a-changing-world-an-inventory/ 

“La lotta anti-colonialista africana: Rivendicare la storia,” in B@belonline/print, ed., and trans., by Lidia Procesi under the theme, “Incontro con la filosofia africana,” no. 6, 2009. 

“African Philosophy as the Practice of Resistance,” in Journal of Philosophy: A CrossDisciplinary Inquiry, A Quarterly Publication of the Philosophical Society of Nepal, vol. 4, no. 9, Spring 2009. 

“The African Anti-Colonial Struggle: An Effort at Reclaiming History,” in Philosophia Africana, vol. 6, no. 1, March 2003. 

“African Philosophy,” in Encyclopedia Americana (grolier.com), January 2003. 

“Africanity at the End of the 20th Century,” in African Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 1, June 1998. 

“Eurocentrism in Philosophy: The Case of Immanuel Kant,” in The Philosophical Forum, vol. 27, no. 4, 1996. 

“Reflections on: In My Father's House,” in Research in African Literatures, vol. 27, no. 1, 1996. 

“African Philosophy: An Exposition,” in Quest, vol. 7, no. 2, 1993. 

“The African Liberation Struggle: A Hermeneutic Exploration of an African Historical-Political Horizon,” in Ultimate Reality and Meaning, interdisciplinary studies in the philosophy of understanding, vol. 14, no. 1, March 1991. T.  S E R E Q U E B E R H A N         P a g e | 7  

“Karl Marx and African Emancipatory Thought: A Critique of Marx's Eurocentric Metaphysics,” in Praxis International, vol. 10, nos. 1 & 2, April & July 1990.

“The Idea of Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, Issue No. 115, September 1989. 

“The Eritrean People's Liberation Front: A Case Study in the Rhetoric and Practice of African Liberation,” Trotter Institute Publications, Research Report, Number 10, January 1988. 

“Heidegger and Gadamer: Thinking as ‘meditative’ and as ‘effective-historical consciousness,’” in Man and World, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987. 

“Aquinas and Kant: A Comparative Study,” in Dialogue, vol. 26, no. 2/3, April 1984.  

Sample Invited Presentation:
2/2014, "Continental and African Philosophy: A Thematic Encounter," presented at the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center's 32nd Annual Symposium, organized under the theme Phenomenology and the African and Africana Worlds, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.