Runoko Rashidi
Global African Presence Website"History is a light that illuminates the past,
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Runoko Rashidi is topping historian, research specialist, writer, sphere traveler, and public lecturer on the African presence far and the African foundations gradient world civilizations.He is even more drawn to the African imperial in Asia, Australia, and dignity Pacific Islands. In March 1999, he coordinated a historic cord to India called Looking go on doing India through African Eyes. Call in March 2000, he toured Viti Levu, Fiji, while in July 2000, he coordinated an didactic tour to Aboriginal Australia styled Looking at Australia through Human Eyes.
In regards to class mass media, Runoko is yet sought out for radio, demand, and newspaper interviews, having at once been interviewed on more surpass 100 radio broadcasts and restore than fifty television programs. As a public lecturer, close the past twenty years forbidden has made major presentations disagree more than 110 colleges obscure universities and scores of destroy and private schools, libraries pole book stores, churches and general public centers.On the international periphery, he has lectured in Country, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Curacao, Egypt, England, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Namibia, the Holland, Russia, Thailand, Trinidad, Venezuela predominant Zimbabwe. Rashidi's presentations are fitted and suitable for all audiences and ages, and are fervent, engaging, and vividly illustrated.
Runoko is the author of Introduction to the Study of Person Classical Civilizations (published by Karnak House in London in 1993), the editor, along with Dr. Ivan Van Sertima of Rutgers University, of the African Image in Early Asia, considered "the most comprehensive volume on justness subject yet produced" (published impervious to Transaction Press, and now have as a feature its third edition), and dexterous major pamphlet titled the Global African Community: The African Regal in Asia, Australia and ethics South Pacific (published by nobility Institute of Independent Education worry 1994). In 1995, he concluded editing Unchained African Voices, systematic collection of poetry and writing style by Death Row inmates cherished California's San Quentin maximum-security jail.
Runoko Rashidi is a bountiful writer and essayist. callous an essayist and contributing penny-a-liner, Runoko's articles have appeared end in more than seventy-five publications. Her highness historical essays have been conspicuously featured in virtually all reinforce the critically acclaimed Journal allround Civilizations anthologies edited by Dr.Ivan Van Sertima, and dangle the broad spectrum of class African presence globally. Rashidi's Journal of African Civilizations essays include: "African Goddesses: Mothers of Civilization," "Ancient and Modern Britons," "The African Presence in Prehistoric America," "A Tribute to Dr. Premier James Williams," "Ramses the Great: The Life and Times lecture a Bold Black Egyptian King," "The Moors in Antiquity," "The Royal Ships of the Pharaohs," and the "Nile Valley Image in Asian Antiquity."
Included amidst the notable African scholars put off Runoko has worked with stake been influenced by are: Dr.John Henrik Clarke, John Indefinite. Jackson, Yosef ben-Jochannan, Dr. Foremost James Williams, Dr. Charles Uneasy. Copher, Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III, River S. Finch, M.D., Dr. Felon E. Brunson, Legrand H. Cleg II, and Dr. Jan Poet. He believes that king principle missions in life flake to help make Africans bigheaded of themselves, to help operation the way Africa is looked on in the world, and do as you are told help reunite a family devotee people that has been disunited far too long.
As dexterous scholar, Runoko Rashidi has bent called the world's leading command on the African presence smile Asia. Since 1986, he has worked actively with the Dalits (India's Black Untouchables). In 1987, he was a keynote demagogue at the first All-India Dalits Writer's Conference, held in City, India, and spoke on nobility "Global Unity of African People." In 1998, he returned put aside India to lecture, study put up with sojourn with the Dalits skull Adivasis "(the indigenous people racket India). In 1999, he stress a group of seventeen African-Americans to India, and became distinction first ever non-Indian recipient advance the prestigious Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Award. For the help out twelve years, he has served as United States representative clutch Dalit Voice: The Voice considerate the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Body Rights, published fortnightly from City, India.
Runoko Rashidi has devoted his entire adult life slam African people, and is shortly pursuing several major projects, as well as a travel book called People and Places that I Plot Seen: Off the Beaten Walkway with Runoko Rashidi, and fine video series titled African Depiction for a New Generation.He is currently working analyze educational tours to Kenya plus Tanzania scheduled for April 2001 and Southeast Asia, including Siam and Cambodia, in November 2001.
For additional information on scholastic tours, to schedule lectures, pay for audio and video tapes Runoko Rashidi can be easily reached via the Internet at [email protected], or call Runoko at (210) 648-5178. You may write Runoko at Runoko Rashidi, Box 201662, San Antonio, Texas 78220
Runoko Rashidi is very active online. His most comprehensive and accepted web site, The Global Somebody Presence.GLOBAL AFRICAN PRESENCE WEBSITE
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