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Ademola Kazeem FAYEMI Ph.D. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +2348062305327) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is a Principal Investigator at the Lagos-ACC. He writes and lectures widely in African philosophy, African Bioethics and African environmental ethics. Dr. Fayemi received Global Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the University of Johannesburg in 2017 where he interrogated beauty by surgical and non-surgical designs in the sub-Sahara through an Afro-bioethical lens. He won the 2020 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research for the African region, awarded by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California at the 15th World Congress of Bioethics Virtual Conference for being the best paper from Africa presented at the Congress. Until recently, he was a Research Fellow, Moi University African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Kenya. Dr. Fayemi’s current research is on developing a relational ethical framework for research ethics in the project of reconfiguring African Studies. The link to his professional academic profile is https://philpeople.org/profiles/ademola-fayemi