- Source: Runoko Rashidi
Runoko Rashidi (born Ronnie Ross and later known as Ronald Lamar; 16 August 1954 – 2 August 2021) was a "historian", essayist, author and public lecturer based in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France.
Career
Rashidi was a writer and speaker who lectured on ancient Egypt, his belief in pseudo history about an African presence in prehistoric America, Africans in antiquity, and the African presence in Asia and other parts of the world.
Rashidi is the author of Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civilizations] (1993) and the editor of Unchained African Voices, a collection of poetry and prose by death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison. He is also the author or editor of 18 books, including The African Presence in Early Asia (1985, 1988, 1995), with Ivan Van Sertima, Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe (2012) and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East (2013).
Rashidi was a member of the editorial board of Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. He also supported the work of controversial scholars like the late Ivan Van Sertima.
Rashidi died on August 2, 2021, while on a tour of Egypt.
See also
Afrocentricity/Afrocentrism
Pan Africanism
Martin Bernal
John Henrik Clarke
John G. Jackson (writer)
References
Further reading
Van Sertima, Ivan (1989). Egypt Revisited. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-88738-799-3
External links
Official website
Articles by Rashidi, The Global African Presence Website (personal website)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pemberontakan Zanj
- Runoko Rashidi
- Rashidi
- Cheikh Anta Diop
- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
- Nile Valley Civilizations
- Ivan Van Sertima
- African diaspora
- Joel Augustus Rogers
- Dalit Voice
- 2021 deaths in the United States (July–December)
