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

    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.

    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.