Ajume Wingo

Selected Publications

Book:
Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Articles:
"To Love your Country as your Mother: Patriotism after 9/11,” Theory and Research in Education 5 (2007): 23–39.

“The Joy in Living Together: Towards an Appreciation of Laughter,” Journal of Political Philosophy 18(2006): 186–202.

“African Art and the Aesthetics of Hiding and Revealing,” British Journal of Aesthetics 38, no. 1 (1998): 251–65.

“Fellowship Associations as Foundation for Democracy in Africa,” Companion to African Philosophy, K. Wiredu (ed.), (Blackwell, 2003)

“The Many Layered Aesthetics of African Art” in Kwasi Wiredu, ed., Companion to African Philosophy (Blackwell, 2004), pp. 425–32.;

“Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa” in Kwasi Wiredu, ed., Companion to African Philosophy (Blackwell, 2004), pp. 450–459. ;

“What Makes Liberal Democrats Tick? The Role of Non-Rationality in Liberal Democratic Politics,” Politeia 19, no. 71 (2003): 84–98.  

Courses Taught

Civic Education in Liberal Democratic states; African Philosophy: Personhood and Morality; African Political Philosophy: On Freedom and Citizenship; Machiavelli, Freedom and Tyranny; Honors 290C .Veil Politics: Political Symbols, Rituals and Traditions in Liberal Democratic Governance; Patriotism after 9/11 in a Liberal Democracy; Individual and Community

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 05-007
Phone: 617-287-6542
Email: ajume.wingo@umb.edu; wingo@fas.harvard.edu