Ada Agada received his PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His first book, Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis, and Values in African Philosophy, has been highly praised for its originality and is a winner of the prestigious CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) award. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). He is currently writing a major monograph and a series of articles that ground consolationism in traditional and contemporary African thought while projecting the thought-system in an intercultural context. Agada is currently a researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and a senior researcher at the Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.