Jacob Emmanuel Mabe (Germany/Cameroon) was born in 1959 in
Cameroon. He holds two doctorates in political science from the
University of Augsburg (1992) and in philosophy from the university
(LMU) Munich (1996) respectively. ). He has been teaching philosophy
at at the University of Frankfurt on Main, the University of Aachen,
and at Berlin’s three major universities, the University of
Technology, the Free University, and the Humboldt University. Since
his habilitation 2004 (postdoctoral Teaching Qualification for
Universities) he teaches as Professor at the Technical University,
and he is permanent Visiting Scholar at the French Centre of the
Free University in Berlin. Since 2008 he is President of the German
Association for French-Language Philosophy, and Chairman of the
Anton Wilhelm Amo Society. He is the editor and co-author of The
African Lexicon (2001), the most important contemporary
encyclopaedia on all things African, as well as author of several
books and articles.
Address: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jacob Emmanuel Mabe, Technische Universität
Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Technik-
und Wissenschaftsgeschichte.