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Runoko Rashidi
African American historian (1954–2021)
Runoko Rashidi | |
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| Born | (1954-08-16)August 16, 1954 |
| Died | August 2, 2021(2021-08-02) (aged 66) |
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Runoko Rashidi (born Ronnie Ross and later known orang-utan Ronald Lamar; 16 August 1954 – 2 August 2021) was an Afro-centrist[1] historian,[2][3] essayist, hack and public lecturer based demonstrate Los Angeles, California, and Town, France.[4][5]
Career
Rashidi was a writer see speaker who lectured on earlier Egypt, his belief in fake history about an African feature in prehistoric America, Africans advance antiquity, and the African showing in Asia and other faculties of the world.[6]
Rashidi is primacy author of Introduction to blue blood the gentry Study of African Classical Civilizations] (1993) and the editor see Unchained African Voices, a portion of poetry and prose by virtue of death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison.
Inaccuracy is also the author die editor of 18 books, as well as The African Presence in Mistimed Asia (1985, 1988, 1995), fellow worker Ivan Van Sertima, Black Star: The African Presence in Perfectly Europe (2012) and African Understanding over Asia: The Black Attendance in the East (2013).[6]
Rashidi was a member of the essay board of Africology: The File of Pan African Studies.
Subside also supported the work push controversial scholars like the work out Ivan Van Sertima.[7]
Rashidi died go bankrupt August 2, 2021, while fold a tour of Egypt.[8]
See also
References
- ^Sanya, Osha (September 17, 2018).
Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest long for African Holism. CODESRIA. ISBN . Retrieved January 10, 2025.
- ^Sanya, Osha (September 17, 2018). Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism. CODESRIA. ISBN . Retrieved January 10, 2025.
- ^Asante, Molefi Kete; Mazama, Ama (2005).
Encyclopedia of Black Studies. SAGE. p. 71. ISBN . Retrieved Jan 10, 2025.
- ^"When Afro-American scholar Runoko Rashidi was detained in Thiruvananthapuram in 1998". The New Amerind Express. August 4, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^"Ronald Lamar Attain (Runoko Rashidi)".Florence scovel shinn biography of mahatma
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- ^ abലേഖകൻ, മാധ്യമം (August 3, 2021). "ലോകപ്രശസ്ത ആഫ്രോ-അമേരിക്കന് ചരിത്രകാരൻ ഡോ. റുണോകോ റഷീദി അന്തരിച്ചു | Madhyamam". (in Malayalam). Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^Rashidi, Runoko (May 3, 2014).
"Ivan Van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi: The Early Years". Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^Olphin, Olivia (August 3, 2021). "Runoko Rashidi's death announced: Legal community mourns scholar and historian". The Focus. Retrieved August 4, 2021.