Jacob U'Mofe Gordon

Jacob U’Mofe Gordon is emeritus professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas, Kwame Nkrumah Endowed Chair of African Studies at the University of Ghana, and Senior Fulbright Scholar. Gordon is the Founding Chair of the Founding Chair of the Department of African Studies, now the Department of African and African American Studies, at the University of Kansas in 1970. He is the author or coauthor of over 30 books, book chapters, numerous articles in academic journals, and research reports, including The Selected Works of an African Scholar in the Diaspora: A Retrospective Analysis; Africa and the African Diaspora in the Development of the Global North: The American Story; Revisiting Kwame Nkrumah: Pathways for the Future; African Traditional Leadership: Past, Present and the Future; The African Presence in Black America; and African Studies for the 21st Century.