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 My name is Kwaku Amoabeng. I am a retired professional librarian and college teacher, and  an academically-credentialed Africanist scholar with considerable college teaching and research experience.

I taught courses in African-American literature and history, library skills, English composition,  Business English, Third World Literature at the University Of Cape Coast,  Stony Brook University, Passaic County Community College, Paterson. New Jersey, and at Rockland Community College in Suffern, upstate New York.

I am a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Cape Coast and Stony Brook University, where I earned a Ph.D in 1986.

I have published extensively in modern and traditional African literature in collaboration with Professor Carrol Lasker, including literary essays in the following journals: Africans Journal, World Literature Today, Queens Quarterly: A Canadian University Review.

I also served as the director of the Paterson Free Public Library from 1993 to 2000.

This blog will be devoted to  issues and bibliographical interests pertaining to African, African-American and the African diaspora. Some of the themes to be blogged will come from anAfricana scrap album I have kept for  the past 40 years. Contemporary issues affecting black people will also be featured  and discussed.

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