Abdul Karim Bangura

When in the fall of 2001 Harvard University President Lawrence Summers staged a confrontation with prominent African American Studies Professor Cornel West, browbeating him for what Summers characterized as spending too much time on political activism and spoken-word poetry, missing too many classes, and contributing to grade inflation, West was the one that ended leaving…

One of my mantras to our Afrikan students from both the Motherland and in the Diaspora is that we must get rid of the myth of Afrikans being a “minority.” And that since there are more people on this earth who look like Whitney than Britney, we have the potential to stop the marginalization and…

A mantra those of us in research methodology like to evoke goes as follows: Like beauty, the meaning of data is in the eyes of the beholder. Indeed, it was mathematician Henri Poincare who made the poignant observation that “Science is built up with facts as a house is with stones. But a collection of…