Menkiti biography

Ifeanyi Menkiti, professor emeritus of philosophy, died on June 17. He liked to recall the old saying that philosophers bake no bread, but only to smile and disagree with it.

He believed that philosophers could bake bread and should: that philosophical thinking should make a difference in everyone’s life, even at routine and ordinary moments.

Ifeanyi was born in in Onitsha, Nigeria, in a region once known as Biafra, a site, from to , of a tragic civil war.

Born in Onitsha, Nigeria, Ifeanyi Menkiti came to the US in to attend Pomona College and later earned a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard.

Life and career.

Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor, as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Born in Onitsha, Nigeria, Ifeanyi Menkiti first came to the United States to attend Pomona College from which he received his undergraduate degree.

In his teaching, scholarship, and poetry, in his rescue of the Grolier Bookshop in Cambridge, Mass., and in his friendships with students and colleagues—all marked by wisdom, humility, a fierce sense of justice, delight in human company, a skeptical reverence for tradition, and measured good hope for the human prospect—Ifeanyi achieved exactly that.

Ifeanyi was born in 1940 in Onitsha, Nigeria, in a region once known as Biafra, a site, from 1967 to 1970, of a tragic civil war.

He came to the United States in 1961 to study at Pomona College. His 1974 Harvard dissertation was a study of collective responsibilit