Runoko Rashidi

African American historian (1954–2021)

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Websitedrrunoko.com

Runoko Rashidi (born Ronnie Ross and later known as Ronald Lamar; 16 August 1954 – 2 August 2021) was a historian, essayist, author and public lecturer based in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France.^[1]^[2]

Career

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.^[3]

Rashidi 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 State Prison. He is also 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).^[3]

Rashidi was a member of the editorial board of Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, and he held an honorary doctorate of divinity from Amen-Ra Theological Seminary (Los Angeles, California). He also supported the work of controversial scholars like the late Ivan Van Sertima.^[4]

Rashidi died on August 2, 2021, while on a tour of Egypt.^[5]

References

^ "When Afro-American scholar Runoko Rashidi was detained in Thiruvananthapuram in 1998". The New Indian Express. August 4, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
^ "Ronald Lamar Ross (Runoko Rashidi)". Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary.
^ ^a ^b ലേഖകൻ, മാധ്യമം (August 3, 2021). "ലോകപ്രശസ്ത ആഫ്രോ-അമേരിക്കന്‍ ചരിത്രകാരൻ ഡോ. റുണോകോ റഷീദി അന്തരിച്ചു | Madhyamam". www.madhyamam.com (in Malayalam). Retrieved August 4, 2021.
^ Rashidi, Runoko (May 3, 2014). "Ivan Van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi: The Early Years". Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
^ Olphin, Olivia (August 3, 2021). "Runoko Rashidi's death announced: Academic community mourns scholar and historian". The Focus. Retrieved August 4, 2021.

External links

Official website
Articles by Rashidi, The Global African Presence Website (personal website)

Pan-Africanism

Ideology

Variants	African nationalism African socialism Afrocentrism Anti-imperialism Anti-Western sentiment Black nationalism Garveyism Nkrumaism Sankarism Uhuru Movement Zikism
Concepts	African century Black power Négritude Ubuntu Ujamaa United States of Africa

Proponents

Politicians	Dennis Akumu Idi Amin Nnamdi Azikiwe Amílcar Cabral David Comissiong Jean-Jacques Dessalines Anténor Firmin Muammar Gaddafi Marcus Garvey Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Kenneth Kaunda Modibo Keïta Jomo Kenyatta Toussaint Louverture Patrice Lumumba Samora Machel Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo Thabo Mbeki Tom Mboya Robert Mugabe Abdias do Nascimento Gamal Abdel Nasser Kwame Nkrumah Julius Nyerere John Nyathi Pokela Thomas Sankara Ahmed Sékou Touré Haile Selassie Robert Sobukwe I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson
Others	Marimba Ani Molefi Kete Asante Steve Biko Edward Wilmot Blyden Stokely Carmichael Aimé Césaire John Henrik Clarke Martin R. Delany Cheikh Anta Diop W. E. B. Du Bois Frantz Fanon Amy Ashwood Garvey John G. Jackson Leonard Jeffries Yosef Ben-Jochannan Maulana Karenga Alice Kinloch Fela Kuti Malcolm X Archie Mafeje Ali Mazrui Zephania Mothopeng George Padmore Motsoko Pheko Runoko Rashidi Paul Robeson Randall Robinson Walter Rodney Burning Spear Issa Laye Thiaw Frances Cress Welsing Henry Sylvester Williams Amos N. Wilson Omali Yeshitela

Politicians

Others

Organizations

Educational	African Leadership Academy African Leadership University
Political	African Unification Front African Union All-African People's Revolutionary Party All-African Trade Union Federation Conseil de l'Entente Convention People's Party East African Community Economic Freedom Fighters First Pan-African Conference International African Service Bureau Organisation of African Trade Union Unity Organisation of African Unity Pan African Association Pan-African Freedom Movement for East and Central Africa Pan-African Congress Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Popular and Social League of the Great Sahara Tribes Rassemblement Démocratique Africain Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ZANU–PF

Educational

Political