Eberechukwu Owuamanam SJ is a Jesuit scholastic (Society of Jesus, Africa-Madagascar Assistancy) and MA Philosophy candidate at Arrupe Jesuit University, Harare, where his research develops the Ijeluwa framework a systematic African relational ontology with direct applications to humanitarian practice, education, and mental health and psychosocial support. His scholarship is grounded in eight years of grassroots humanitarian engagement across West Africa: he founded the Jed Child Trust Foundation, which has served over 15,000 children across communities in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, and Niger, and has worked with Refugee Services on refugee education and protection in northern Nigeria. He participated in the 14th Annual Global Humanitarian Policy Forum (OCHA/UN Foundation, 2025), has published on decolonising humanitarian aid with the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and African Arguments, and will present at the 2026 Ignatian AI Conference at Fordham University in October and the Red Cross and Red Crescent MHPSS Carnival in Kenya in September.