— Who We Are —

International Board of Trustees

*Branch Presidents

Prof Asare Opoku: Professor & Chair, Kwabena Nketia Centre for Africana Studies, African University College of Communications (AUCC), Ghana
Prof. Molefi Kete Asante: Professor & Chair, Dept of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Queen Mother Dr. Dowoti Desir: Founding Director, The Afro Atlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute, Benin
Prof. Bertrade Ngo -Ngijol Banoum: Chair, Dept of Africana Studies, Lehman College City University of New York, USA
Prof. Toyin Falola: Professor of History & African Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
Prof. Camara Mohamed: Chair, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
Prof. Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies: Professor of English & African Studies, Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Prof. Maulana Karenga: Professor of Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA
Prof. Kathryn Morgan: Director, African American Studies Program, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Dr. Funlayo Wood-Menzies: Founding Director, African & Diasporic Religious Studies Association, California, USA
Prof. Iva Carruthers: PhD, General Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Emeritus Professor, Educator and Pan African Activist, USA

Prof. Ezrah Aharone: Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science, Delaware State University, USA
Prof. Abena Busia: Former Professor in Women & Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Prof. Amina Mama: Director, Women & Gender Studies, University of California, Davis, USA
Prof. Pashington Obeng: Dean of Arts & Sciences, Specialized in Indian Ocean & Transatlantic African Diaspora Studies, Ashesi University, Ghana,
Prof. Silva Santos: Penn Museum, Penn State University, Philadelphia, USA
Prof. Aurora Vergara: Director, Afrodiasporic Studies Center, ICESI University, Colombia, USA
Prof. Verene A. Shepherd: Professor of Social History, University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Prof. Kehbuma Langmia: Professor & Chair, Department of Strategic, Legal, Management Communication, Cathy Hughes School of Communications, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega: President of Creative Justice Initiative, Co-Founder Corredor Afro
Dr. Umar Ahmad Kasule: Faculty Member, Islamic Studies and Kalam Department, Islamic University, Uganda
Prof Ncedile Saule: Research Fellow, School of Language and Literature at the Department of African Languages and Creative Writing, Rhodes University, USA