
PhD Philosophy (Metaphysics).
MA Philosophy.
MA Theology and Religious Studies.
Post Graduate Diploma Education (Double in Moral Education and English).
Bachelor of Arts Humanities (Double Major in Theology and Religious Studies and English).
Dr. Doreen Sesiro is a lecturer at the University of Botswana since 2013. She teaches Philosophy in the areas of Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (Metaphysics) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In 2023 Dr. Sesiro was among the remarkable graduates who walked the stage during the university of Pretoria's (UP) graduation as she became the first African woman from Botswana to receive a PhD in philosophy. She is also the first Metaphysician among all philosophers in Botswana. She holds an MA in Philosophy from St Augustine College of South Africa. She also hold an MA in Theology and Religious Studies, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a BA in Humanities from the University of Botswana. She completed a Short Course on Supervising Postgraduate Research: Developing Appropriate Research Projects in the Global South Context: Referencing Decolonisation and other African ways of Approaching Post-colonial Social Phenomena at St Augustine College of South Africa in 2024.Her research interests are in areas of Transhumanism, Biotechnological Enhancement and Metaphysics. Dr Sesiro is a member of Transhumanists Africa (TA) Board of Directors and also a member of an intellectual society called CIRCLE (the Circle of Concerned Africa Women Theologians). Besides teaching Dr. Sesiro is a prison minister and a bona fide board member of BOCRI (Botswana Crime Research Institute) in good standing.
1) Metaphysics
2) Epistemology
3) Ethics
Transhumanism, Personhood, Bio-technological Enhancement, Metaphysics.
- Recentering African Indigenous Religion(s) through Women: Ntloedibe-Kuswani’s Decolonising Perspective (2024). A Chapter in African Indigenous Religions (AIR) book. Springer. https://images.app.goo.gl/1XxftuvmQZCVMWxK9
- Would a Transhuman Be Free, Determined or Both? The Metaphysical Aspect of the Botho Perspective (2023). South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 42 (4). Page 361-371. http://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2023.2288764
- The Botho perspective on Human and Animal Welfare. A chapter in Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective (2023). Marie-Élise Zovko John Dillon (eds). Springer. Page 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36659-8
- Dube, W. M, Gabaitse, R.M, Kebaneilwe, M, Kgalemang, M, Madigele, T, Modie-Moroka, T, Mmolai, S, Motswapong, E.P, Ntloedibe, S, Sesiro, D. Setume, S. D (2016). Botho/Ubuntu: Community Building and Gender Constructions in Botswana. Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. 42(1). Pp. 1-21. My task was to do the exposition of Botho.
- Nawa, S, Sesiro, D, Tabalaka, A (2020). Re-Interpreting Inclusion from Ubuntu Perspective: Towards a Non-exclusionary Approach for Persons with