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 Professor Abebe Zegeye
Visiting Professor, YIISA Professor Abebe Zegeye, Primedia Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Graduate School, University of South Africa, is heavily involved in a number of international, continental and local projects in addition to his research and his masters and doctoral post-graduate teaching duties. For the academic year 2008-09 he will be the Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at Yale University in the United States. He has written extensively in accredited international academic journals on African identity formation, nationalist struggles, ethnicity, African genocide and Ethiopian socio-political trends in the Horn of Africa. He is co-editor of two international, accredited journals, namely African Identities; The Journal of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (both of which are Taylor & Francis, Routledge publications). He also serves in numerous academic journal editorial boards. He has recently launched a new project to give wider exposure and recognition to the work of African cultural artists. With the celebration of the Ethiopian millennium he has produced publications on and brokered cultural links with jazz musician Mulatu Astatke and artist Zerihun Yetmgeta. |
