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African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies: Reflections on Exile and Migration book cover

1st Edition

African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies Reflections on Exile and Migration

Edited By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Copyright 2021
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

PART ONE: THE PRIVATE SOJOURNS

1. African Scholars and the Question of Exile

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

2. My (South African) American Story

Stephen Clingman

3. Reflections on Exile: The Case of Ethiopians

Getachew Metaferia

4. Understanding the relevance of Cultural Competence Towards African Scholars in American Academy: Personal Experiences

Fraternel Amuri Misako

5. In Search of Knowledge in North America: Challenges and Possibilities

Balla Keita

PART TWO: PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES

6. Despite the Odds: An African Woman’s Experience of Navigating the US Academy

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

7. Tenure, Promotion, and Recognition: Challenges of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Brenda Ingrid Gill

8. Going with the flow: The unplanned journey in a Predominantly White Institution

Titi Kunkel

9. Boundaries of Exclusion and Inclusion: Africans and the Western Academy

Bruce Ormond Grant

PART THREE: IDENTITY, HOPE, AND ASPIRATIONS

10. Post-independence African Scholars and the Second Liberation Struggle

George B. N. Ayittey

11. On Scholarship and the Hyphenated African Identity

Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma

12. The Fallacy of Unity Between Africans and the African Americans

Brenda I. Gill, and Sabella O. Abidde

13. The Invisible Minority: Accented Speaker and Upward Mobility in the Workplace

Olusoji Akomolafe

Biography

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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