Background
Diakité, Madubuko Arthur R. was born on December 17, 1940 in New York City. Following his parents" divorce, his mother married a journalist from Nigeria, and he and his three siblings spent most of their teenage years there.
Diakité, Madubuko Arthur R. was born on December 17, 1940 in New York City. Following his parents" divorce, his mother married a journalist from Nigeria, and he and his three siblings spent most of their teenage years there.
Student, Hunter College, 1966. Bachelor of Laws, LaSalle Extension University, 1967. Bachelor, Stockholm University, 1970.
Master Degree, Stockholm University, 1972. Master of Laws, Lund (Sweden) University, 1993.
He has traveled widely throughout Africa and currently free-lances as a guest lecturer and consultant on African migration, the African diaspora, human rights law, film history and mass media. Upon returning to New York in the 60s he earned a law degree. Inspired by documentary filmmakers in New York at the time, he earned a diploma in documentary filmmaking at the New York Institute of Photography under George Wallach.
He arrived in Sweden as a foreign student in 1968 and earned a Swedish Bachelor of Arts (Fil Kand) and a Master of Arts After completing studies for a Doctor of Philosophy in film history (ABD) at Stockholm University he published the draft of his dissertation as a book entitled A Piece of The Glory: A Survey of African American Filmmakers and Their Struggles with Popular American Myths.
After yet another stay in Nigeria, where he established the film unit at the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, Ahmadu Bello University (Michael Crowder, Director) he settled in southern Sweden. In 1992, he earned a Master of Laws at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, and a Juris Licentiat in 2007, both under the supervision of Professor Göran Melander.
His current research at the renowned Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden, examines human rights and migrant workers in Africa. Diakité has published articles on film and human rights law for several international publications, and has headed several projects on the rights of people of African descent.
He is also the publisher of The Lundian Magazine, an English language newsletter in Sweden, and is the director and Chief Executive Officer of The English International Association of Lund, an non-governmental organization based in Lund, Sweden (founded in 1987).
In 2008 he published Not Even in Your Dreams, a semi-autobiographical work studying child abuse in Africa. Diakité is father to the Swedish rapper Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité.
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Member American Council of the United Nations Systems, Africana Network, United Nations Association Lund, Swedish Teacher's Union.
1 child, Jason.