ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|74 pages

The private sojourns

chapter 2|10 pages

My South African American story

chapter 3|16 pages

Reflections on exile

The case of the Ethiopians

chapter 5|14 pages

In search of knowledge in North America

Challenges and possibilities

part II|69 pages

Processes and procedures

chapter 6|16 pages

In spite of the odds

A Nigerian woman’s experience of navigating the US academy

chapter 7|30 pages

Tenure, promotion, and recognition

Challenges of race, ethnicity and gender

chapter 8|12 pages

Going with the flow

The unplanned journey in a predominantly White institution

chapter 9|9 pages

Boundaries of exclusion and inclusion

Africans and the Western academy