Christopher “Kitoba” Sunami

角南祈禱場

Christopher “Kitoba” Sunami

Presenting “Philosophy as Activism”
at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center (4C)

80 Parsons Ave
7-9pm Alternate Wednesdays, March-April 2025
Free and open to the public. Free will offering to benefit the 4C.

March 5: “What is Reality” (Plato, Plotinus, Huxley, The Matrix)

March 19: “Practical Religion” (The Gospels, The Sufis, Kierkegaard, MLK)

April 2: “Structure” (Ecclesiastes, The Tao, Chaos Theory, African Fractals)

April 16: “Identity” (Sartre, Fanon, Hofstadter, Mauss, Marcus Aurelius)

April 30: “Community Values” (Ubuntu, Sankofa, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Mirandola)

All program contents subject to change without notice.

Philosopher, writer, musician, programmer

  • Author of How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie, named a Notable Book by the National Council of Teachers of English and nominated for the Georgia Book Award
  • Author of Hero For Christ, a socially progressive Christian devotional, winner of a Indie Book Award
  • Development Consultant at Nationwide Insurance
  • Founder and Director of the Columbus Invitational Arts Competition
  • Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Founder and Director of the All People Music Mondays
  • Married to artist April Sunami
  • Child of public artist John Sunami, grandson of photographer Soichi Sunami
  • Grandson of Tuskegee Airman Major Henry A. Norman, descendant of Black Revolutionary War Hero Basil Norman
  • Of Black and Japanese heritage
  • Graduate of Columbus Alternative High School (CAHS, 1993), Swarthmore College (1997) and the Ohio State University (2000), with degrees in Philosophy and Educational Administration
  • Member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
  • Member of the Fireside Fellowship
  • Blogs at the Pop Culture Philosopher