Ivan van Sertima

Ivan van Sertima

male, 74 years old
African Renaissance, University of London, linguistics, The Lost Sciences of Africa An Overview, Blacks in Science Ancient and Modern, Kitty Village…Journal of African Civilization, AfricanStudies, School of Oriental and African Studies
Ivan van Sertima is an American historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University. He was born at Kitty Village, Guyana, South America...

Melville J. Herskovits

male, deceased (1963)
Franklin Frazier, Northwestern University faculty, academia, Cold War, World War II, african…African American Studies, AfricanStudies
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 - February 25, 1963) was a U.S. anthropologist born in Bellefontaine, Ohio who firmly established...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
George Polk Award recipient, Harvard University, American, piedmont, African-American studies scholar, West Virginia writer…African American Studies, AfricanStudies, african, African American
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine

male
linguist, linguistics, grammar, University of Cologne, AfricanStudies, language contact
Bernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies. From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of...
Kamau Kambon

Kamau Kambon

male
Kamau Rashidi Kambon, Raleigh, Prejudices, Leroy Jefferson, "Kamau Rashidi Kambon", Neo-Nazi movements and concepts…AfricanStudies, African American Studies, African American
Kamau Rashidi Kambon, born Leroy Jefferson is a former African Studies college instructor. He generated huge controversy when he advocated the...
Yohanan Friedmann

Yohanan Friedmann

male
University of Pennsylvania, Islamic studies, AfricanStudies, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for Advanced Study, asian studies…Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Yohanan Friedmann 1936-) is an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies. He is Max Schloessinger Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew...
Gerald Early

Gerald Early

male, 57 years old
Washington University, Critic, prose, Washington University faculty, Washington University in St. Louis, English…African American culture, African-American studies scholar, African American Studies, AfricanStudies, African American
Gerald Early (b. 1952) is an essayist and American culture critic. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is currently a professor of English,...
Mario Azevedo

Mario Azevedo

male
Jackson State University, epidemiology, Ph.D., Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, War of Independence…African American Studies, AfricanStudies, African-American
Mario Joaquim Azevedo is a Mozambican novelist, historian, professor, and epidemiologist. A refugee, Azevevedo, esteemed as one of the most...
Thayer Scudder

Thayer Scudder

male, 79 years old
World Commission on Dams, american university in cairo, Refugee, Alumni of the London School of Economics, california institute of technology, American…AfricanStudies
Thayer Scudder (b. 1930, New Haven, CT), an American social anthropologist, is an Anthropology Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of...
Dmitri Bondarenko

Dmitri Bondarenko

male
Northwestern University, AfricanStudies, Social Evolution & History, ethnic studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University…Diaspora studies
Dmitri Bondarenko (born in Moscow in 1968) is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and Africanist. He is the Chair of the Department of Cultural...