Diaspora Conversations

Hello and welcome to Diaspora Conversations. It is my hope you have been keeping safe. Between Covid and Black Lives Matter, I took a break to process things. As people of African descent, this has been quite the year especially in the US. We are still asking for our rights, even though slavery and colonization ended, years ago. And I have been thinking- how do we end this? What can we do, to show the rest of the world, that enough is enough? I am a community organizer and one thing I know is...

 We can no longer stand on the sidelines anymore because we do not understand the fight. Here's what you can do. 

A short clip on my thoughts about Africa Day. This was originally posted on YouTube and I made an audio file for the podcast.

Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is the current Vice Chancellor and Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.He is a distinguished academic, award winning author, one of Africa’s leading diaspora intellectuals’ who has held senior administrative positions in higher education in Canada and the United States for 25 years. His research project on the African academic diaspora led to the establishment of the Carnegie Africa...

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is the Vice Chancellor and Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.He is a graduate of the University of Malawi, holds a Masters' degree in African history and international relations from the University of London and a Ph.D. in economic history from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Canada. He is one of Africa’s leading diaspora intellectuals who has taught and been an administrator in universities in six countries on three continents. He has authored influential and award winning publications on African economic history and the African diaspora. His book, "In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters" was the inspiration of this episode.