Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, United States. He is a trained economist and ethicist and was a business strategist and investment banker in Lagos and New York. His work on Kalabari-Ijo covers multiple fields, including political and economic history, precolonial business management practices, culture, religion, and philosophy. He is the author of several books including, The Mind of African Strategists (1997/2024), Pattern of Institutions in the Niger Delta: An Economic and Ethological Interpretation of History and Culture (2007); The Depth and Destiny of Work: An African Theological Interpretation (2008); Ethics and Time: Ethos of Temporal Orientation in Politics and Religion in the Niger Delta (2010); The Split Time: An Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective (2022); Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective (2024), Káláḅárị́ Tẹ́mẹ́tẹ́ị́n Ẹ́kwẹ́n (2024), and Songs of Childhood: Biafran War Memories (2025).