Ósìnákáchī Àkùmà Kálū, MBA
Ósìnákáchī Àkùmà Kálū, MBA, is a Nigerian philosopher, futurist, and longevity advocate working to position Africa within the global conversation on healthy human longevity. He is the Founder and Board Chair of TAFFD’s (Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions), a transdisciplinary futures organization, and the Cofounder of Afrolongevity, the Africa-rooted longevity science, policy, and education platform that operates under the TAFFD’s umbrella.
Through Afrolongevity — which he cofounded with our Brenda Ramokopelwa — Ósìnákáchī launched and convenes the International Longevity Summit Africa (ILSA), described as the first and only recurring longevity summit on the African continent.
The summit gathers scientists, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to address biological aging, healthspan extension, and longevity equity, and its advisory and speaking community has included longevity figures such as Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More, and Andrea Maier. The fourth edition was held in Durban, South Africa, in September 2025, and the 2026 summit is planned for Addis Ababa. Read International Longevity Summit Africa: A New Frontier for Global Healthspan. The summit’s debut also drew coverage in the South African press, Biotech in South Africa: Ageing population sparks debate.
Ósìnákáchī is also the Founder and Chief Longevity Strategist of Health of the Future Enterprise (HOTFE), a health-innovation venture centered on preventive, “upstream” approaches to aging and metabolic health. He serves as a Board Member of the International Longevity Alliance (ILA), a global network advancing research, policy, and advocacy for healthy human longevity, and has been profiled by Deep Knowledge Analytics as one of the ILA’s federated members. A recurring theme of his work is the argument that Africa should enter the longevity economy through food systems, biodiversity, and preventive biological health rather than late-stage biomedical competition.
He is an Honorary Academy Fellow of WAMS, The World Academy of Medical Sciences, where he also chairs the Council for the Youth Development of Nigeria and serves on its COVID-19 safety committee, and is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Ósìnákáchī founded the futures media platform The Future News and the educational initiative Academy of the Future, and holds memberships with Humanity+, Singularity University, OpenExO, and the U.S. Transhumanist Party.
Ósìnákáchī’s intellectual roots lie in the Philosophy of Fearism, the school founded by Desh Subba. He serves as Chairman of Fearism Studies in Africa at the Fearism Study Center in Dharan, Nepal, and is a member of the Fearlessness Movement associated with R. Michael Fisher. He is the author of Conquering the Beast Fear: A Philosophical Cum Psychological Approach and The First Stage of the Fearologist, and a contributor to Eco-Fearism: Prospects & Burning Issues and Success Mantra: Decoding Philosophy to a Purposeful Life. He also founded The Penlords, a writers’ collective.
Ósìnákáchī earned his MBA from Miva Open University in 2025. He studied philosophy at the Claretian Institute of Philosophy in Nekede — an institute affiliated with both the Pontifical Urban University (Urbaniana) in Rome and Imo State University — through which he earned an ecclesiastical Bachelor of Philosophy graded Magna Cum Laude Probatus and a civil Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
He also holds a Diploma in Business Administration and Management from Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri, an Associate’s degree in Fearology from the Fearism Study Center in Dharan, Nepal, and a professional certificate in Digital Competition in Financial Services from Copenhagen Business School.
In 2018, Ósìnákáchī received the Tilmati Fearism Award (also known as the Tilmati Bhaybad Award), conferred by Prof. Dr. Tanka Prasad Neupane, Chairman of the Fearism Study Center, at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is recognized as the first African to receive the award. He is a frequent speaker and writer on longevity, futures thinking, and fearism, and maintains an author page on Amazon and a profile on PhilPeople.
Igbo by birth and from the Eastern part of Nigeria, Ósìnákáchī is also a Catholic liturgical composer and divides his work between Nigeria and South Africa.
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