Background

Ibrahim Sundiata was born on November 11, 1944, in Painesville, Ohio, United States.

Education

In 1966, Ibrahim received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. Later, he continued his education at Northwestern University, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1972. Ivor Wilks, a noted British Africanist and historian, specializing in Ghana, was one of his mentors at Northwestern University.

Career

In 1971, Ibrahim began his career as an assistant professor at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, a post he held till 1972, when he was appointed an assistant professor at Northwestern University in Evanston. Sundiata remained at Northwestern University until 1978.

During the period from 1978 till 1991, Ibrahim served as an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Between 1980 and 1983, he was a member of executive committee of board of directors at African Studies Association.

In 1991, he was appointed a professor of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University in Waltham. In 1998, Ibrahim left Brandeis University and the same year, he was appointed a chair of the Department of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a post he held till 2002. Following a fellowship at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, he returned to Brandeis University, where he was later made a Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African-American Studies.

During the period from 2001 till 2009, he also acted as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently, Ibrahim is a Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University.

Achievements

• Ibrahim K. Sundiata is a renowned scholar and historian, who gained prominence for his expertise in West African and African-American history. Also, he became famous for his research on Atlantic slavery, migration and colonialism, as well as on race relations in the United States and Latin America, specifically in Brazil.
  
  Ibrahim received grants from different organizations, including Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center, as well as Fulbright Program.

Works

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  • Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940

    (Unprecedented in scope and detail, "Brothers and Stranger...)

    2003
  • Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror And The Search For Stability

    (The troubled history of Equatorial Guinea reflects the hi...)

    1990
  • From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930

    (In this work, Ibrahim K. Sundiata offers a comprehensive ...)

    1996
  • Black Scandal, America and the Liberian Labor Crisis, 1929-1936 1980

Connections

mentor:

Ivor Wilks