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Runoko Rashidi (16 August 1954 – 2 August 2021) was a historian, essayist, author and public lecturer based in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France. He 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 maximum-security prison. He was a member of the editorial board of ''Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies'' (www.jpanafrican.org), and he held an honorary doctorate of divinity from Amen-Ra Theological Seminary (Los Angeles, California). He also supported the work of
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scholars like the late Ivan Van Sertima.


Scope of work

Rashidi was a writer and speaker who lectured on ancient Egypt, his belief in an African presence in prehistoric America, Africans in antiquity, and the African presence in Asia and other parts of the world.


Activities

He is 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). He died on August 2, 2021, while on a tour of Egypt.


See also

* Afrocentricity/Afrocentrism * Pan Africanism *
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* John G. Jackson (writer)


References


Further reading

* Van Sertima, Ivan (1989). ''Egypt Revisited''.
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External links


Official website


The Global African Presence Website (personal website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rashidi, Runoko 1954 births 2021 deaths People from Los Angeles African-American non-fiction writers 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians Historians of Africa Afrocentrists American Africanists American pan-Africanists Pseudohistorians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American writers African-American male writers