Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University.

Ethics and Time investigates how temporal orientation influence social-ethics. Re-conceptualizing temporal orientation as the production of new temporalities that allow humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles that impede their flourishing, it shows how a social group's orientation to time frames, informs, and drives its politics and religion. It uses an African culture as a practical case study to concretely illustrate the form and dynamics of the interconnections.

Chapter 1 1: Creating Time Gaps Chapter 2 2: Chiefs: Subjects to Freedom Chapter 3 3: Imagination: Source of Self and Religion Chapter 4 4: Apocalypticism: The Struggle for a Relevant Future Chapter 5 5: Temporal Orientation and Philosophy of History Chapter 6 6: The Virtue of Time Chapter 7 7: Kairos and Economic Development