Faculty Professor

Maulana Karenga - mkarenga@csulb.edu

Academic specialties/ Area of interest:

• Nationalism
• Black intellectual and political culture
• Writing in scholarly articles and books, including: Introduction to Black Studies; Selections From the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt; Kawaida: A Communitarian African Philosophy; Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings ; and Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt : A Study in Classical African Ethics .
• Kwanzaa (widely known as the creator of the African American and Pan African holiday celebrated through the world)

Education Information (degrees and Universities attended):

• Ph.D. in Political Science (emphasis on theory and practice of nationalism), United States International University
• Ph.D. in Social Ethics (emphasis on classical African ethics of ancient Egypt ), USC, California
• Honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Durban- Westville, South Africa

Courses

• B/ST 110: Introduction to Black Studies
• B/ST 319: Ethnic Experience in the U.S.
• B/ST 499: Direct Studies

Professional and community affiliations

• Director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan- African Studies, Los Angeles
• National chairman of The Organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO)

Links

• www.Us-Organization.org
• www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org