VIRTUAL EVENT
ZOOM MEETING 845-3346-9138
Passcode 765862A

Sponsored by: SOMA Action Justice Committee

The Africana Institute is ECC’s center for the exploration and critical examination of the African global experience. In addition to scholarly opportunities the institute possesses museum quality African Art of which many are unaware. The institutes Director Dr. Akil Khalfani will take us on a virtual tour of these singular works of art along with their back stories.

Bio: Dr. Akil Kokayi Khalfani is Director of the Africana Institute and Associate Professor of Sociology at Essex County College. Dr. Khalfani has a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, from which he also earned a Certificate in African Studies. Additionally, he studied Zulu, Afrikaans and southern African history and culture at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is a motivational speaker and author who excites audiences all around. 

Dr. Khalfani is the author of the bestselling, The Hidden Debate: The Truth Revealed about the Battle over Affirmative Action in South Africa and the United States (Routledge 2006), which was nominated for two national awards: the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award and the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Award. He is the co-author of a new book Introduction to Sociology: Understanding Our Social World. He has written articles and book chapters on Pan Africanism, racial classification in South Africa, and population statistics. He has recently embarked on a three-book series called “Africana Sociology”.

His areas of expertise are Africana Studies, race relations, social stratification, and comparative history.