African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies
This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities.
The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine a range of issues, ideas, and phenomena within North American colleges and universities. The contributors examine the political, ethnic, or religious upheavals that informed their migration or banishment; contrast the teaching-learning-research environment in Africa and North America; and discuss on and off-campus experience with segregation and racial inequality.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the African Diaspora, migration, and African Studies.
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University, USA.
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African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies
Reflections on Exile and Migration
Edited by
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
First published 2021
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To all those African scholars and intellectuals who left on their own volition or were forced to flee the continent for the safety and security of North America but who, in spite of the continuing perils, challenges, and uncertainties of the continent choose to relocate and or continues to engage and reengage the continent in meaningful ways. Thank you!
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Acknowledgments
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SABELLA OGBOBODE ABIDDE
STEPHEN CLINGMAN
GETACHEW METAFERIA
FRATERNEL AMURI MISAKO
BALLA M. KEITA
IBIPO JOHNSTON-ANUMONWO
BRENDA INGRID GILL
TITI KUNKEL
BRUCE ORMOND GRANT
GEORGE B. N. AYITTEY
ADAUGO PAMELA NWAKANMA
BRENDA INGRID GILL AND SABELLA OGBOBODE ABIDDE
OLUSOJI AKOMOLAFE
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is a professor of political science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University. He holds a BA (international relations) and an MSc (educational administration) from Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota. He earned his second masters degree (an MA in political science) from Minnesota State University Mankato; and a PhD with a disciplinary focus in world affairs, public policy, and development studies from Howard University. Professor Abidde is the author/editor/co-editor of four recent books published by Lexington Books: Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation (2018); Africans and the Exiled Life: Migration, Culture and Globalization (2017); Nigerias Niger Delta: Militancy, Amnesty and the Post-Amnesty Environment (2017); and Pan-Africanism in Modern Times: Challenges, Concerns and Constraints (2016). Professor Abide is a recipient of the 2020 MOFA-Taiwan Fellowship and is currently editing two books to be published in 2020: African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, and The Challenges of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. He is a member of the African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF); the Association of Global South Studies (AGSS); and the African Studies Association (ASA).
Olusoji Akomolafe is the chair of the Department of Political Science and professor of international relations at Norfolk State University, Virginia. He earned his doctorate in international relations from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 1991. He is the author of several academic publications including United States Policy Toward Angola, 19611975; The OAU and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Constructive Engagement: American Political Process and Reagans Policy toward South Africa; and Africa and Foreign Policy: The Role of HBCUs.
Fraternel Amuri Misako is the Founding Director of Global University Project for Peace and Sustainable Development (Globunivers), a nonprofit organization based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He came to the University of Kentucky in Fall 2010 as a Visiting Scholar through the Institute of International Educations Scholar Rescue Fund (20102012). He studied for a Masters in Public Administration at Eastern Kentucky University (20152017), while teaching courses via videoconferencing for his home University of Kisangani (DRC), where he is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He is currently a PhD Student in the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development at Kennesaw State University (KSU), Kennesaw, Georgia, US.
George B. N. Ayittey
