16 Facts About Akinyele Umoja

Akinyele Umoja was born on 1954 and is an American educator and author who specializes in African-American studies.

Akinyele Omowale Umoja was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1954, and spent much of his childhood in Compton, California.

Akinyele Umoja received his BA in Afro-American studies from California State University, Los Angeles, in June 1986.

Akinyele Umoja dropped out of UCLA, joining the African People's Party and the House of Umoja.

Akinyele Umoja has since represented both organizations nationally and in international forums in the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.

From 1972 until 1982, Akinyele Umoja was on the staff of Soulbook: The Revolutionary Journal of the Black World, founded by Mamadou Lumumba.

Akinyele Umoja was very active in activism in Los Angeles during this time, where he organized security and assistance for several of Malcolm X's associates.

Akinyele Umoja was active with the Coalition Against Police Abuse in Los Angeles.

Akinyele Umoja has taught in secondary schools, alternative schools, and colleges and universities, as well as developed Afrikan-centered curriculum for public schools and community-education programs.

Akinyele Umoja then became a professor at the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, and is department chair.

Akinyele Umoja's writing has been featured in scholarly publications as The Journal of Black Studies, New Political Science, The International Journal of Africana Studies, Black Scholar, Radical History Review and Socialism and Democracy.

Akinyele Umoja was one of the contributors to Blackwell Companion on African American History, The Black Panther Party Reconsidered, Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party, and Malcolm X: A Historical Reader.

Akinyele Umoja has been a contributor to commercial and popular documentaries on black history.

Akinyele Umoja was a featured commentator on the American Gangster episode "Dr Mutulu Shakur", which aired on November 8,2008.

Akinyele Umoja appeared in Bastards of the Party and Freedom Archives' Cointelpro 101.

Akinyele Umoja earned the Patricia Harris Fellowship from 1990 until 1993, and, in 1994, he was named in Who's Who in America's Teachers.