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Jean Bosco Kakozi Kashindi

Jean Bosco Kakozi Kashindi es originario de la República Democrática del Congo y naturalizado mexicano. Actualmente se desempeña como profesor e investigador, en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, de El Colegio de México (Ciudad de México).

Se graduó en Filosofía y Ciencias humanas, en el
Grand Séminaire “Notre Dame d’Afrique” (Bukavu/R.D. Congo). Es maestro y doctor en Estudios Latinoamericanos (Área de Conocimiento: Filosofías, Historia de las ideas e Ideología en América Latina), por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), con estancia de investigación doctoral sobre Ubuntu en la Universidad de Witswatersrand (Sudáfrica). Cuenta con estudios teológicos en el Instituto de Formación Teológica Intercongregacional de México (IFTIM), en la Ciudad de México; asimismo, se desempeñó como “Profesor efetivo” de Historia de África contemporánea, en la Universidad Federal de Integración Latinoamericana (UNILA), en Foz do Iguaçú, Brasil (2017-2019).

Sus intereses de investigación versan sobre la Filosofía africana, Ubuntu, Afrocentricidad, el Racismo, las poblaciones afrodescendientes y las luchas antirracistas, en América Latina y el Caribe. Algunas de sus publicaciones son:

  • “Ubuntu, African Ancestrality and Its Resignifications in the African Diaspora”, South African Review of Sociology, 2024, Vol. 54, N° 3, 381–400:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2024.2402999
  • “El confinamiento por el covid-19 y el espíritu de Ubuntu. Reflexiones desde experiencias africanas”, en Santana S. Jacimara e Ricardo Batista (Orgs.),
    Saúde das populações negras e racismo: do tráfico transatlântico aos tempos da pandemia por Covid-19 (Brasil, EUA e África), Salvador (BR.): Eduneb, 2021.
    ISBN: 978-65-89492-06-1, pp. 185-202 (17 p.).
  • “Ubuntu como crítica descolonial aos Direitos Humanos: uma visão cruzada contra o racismo”, Ensaios Filosóficos, Vol. XIX, Julho/2019:
    http://www.ensaiosfilosoficos.com.br/Artigos/Artigo19/00_REVISTA_Ensaios_Filosoficos_Volume_XIX.pdf
    (ISSN: 2177-4994), pp. 8-21.
  • “Ubuntu and the African Decolonization: The South African case”, en Bragato F., Fernanda y Lewis Gordon (ed.), Geopolitics and decolonization: perspectives from the Global South, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78660-512-2, pp. 65-76.

Jean Bosco Kakozi Kashindi is from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is a naturalized Mexican citizen. He currently works as a professor and researcher at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México (Mexico City).

He graduated in Philosophy and Human Sciences from the
Grand Séminaire “Notre Dame d’Afrique” (Bukavu/DRC). He holds a master’s degree and PhD in Latin American Studies (Area of Knowledge: Philosophies, History of Ideas, and Ideology in Latin America) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with doctoral research on Ubuntu at the University of Witswatersrand (South Africa). He studied theology at the Intercongregational Theological Training Institute of Mexico (IFTIM) in Mexico City. He also served as a full professor of Contemporary African History at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA) in Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil (2017-2019).

His research interests focus on African philosophy, Ubuntu, Afrocentricity, Racism, Afro-descendant populations, and anti-racist struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of his publications include:

  • “Ubuntu, African Ancestrality and Its Resignifications in the African Diaspora”, South African Review of Sociology, 2024, Vol. 54, No. 3, 381–400:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2024.2402999
  • “El confinamiento por el covid-19 y el espíritu de Ubuntu. Reflexiones desde experiencias africanas (Covid-19 Lockdown and the spirit of Ubuntu. Reflections from African experiences)”.
    In Santana S. Jacimara and Ricardo Batista (Eds.),
    Saúde das populações negras e racismo: do tráfico transatlântico aos tempos da pandemia por Covid-19
    (Heal
  • Ubuntu as a decolonial critique of human rights: a cross-cutting view against racism. In Philosophical Essays, Vol. XIX, July/2019: http://www.ensaiosfilosoficos.com.br/Artigos/Artigo19/00_REVISTA_Ensaios_Filosoficos_Volume_XIX.pdf (ISSN: 2177-4994), pp. 8-21.
  • Ubuntu and the African Decolonization: The South African case. In Bragato F., Fernanda and Lewis Gordon (ed.), Geopolitics and decolonization: perspectives from the Global South, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78660-512-2, pp.65-76.