Menkiti was born in
Onitsha,
Nigeria in 1940. His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility". According to this view of personhood, the status of being a person has ethical connotations and is not something that one possesses automatically but must work towards through morally right action. In addition to his academic work, Menkiti was a poet. Commenting on the relationship between philosophy and poetry, he said "poetry deals with the meaning of life, the meaning of meaning, just like philosophy". ==Bibliography==