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Writers & Thinkers

Runoko Rashidi

1954 – 2021

United States (California); global travel (Egypt, India, Asia, Europe)

Historian, writer and lecturer, born Ronald Ross, who studied the African presence in Asia and Europe, edited work with Ivan Van Sertima, and led study tours worldwide.

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Astronaut photograph of the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, from the ISS; Rashidi led study tours to Egypt
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / ISS Expedition 32 crew (ISS032-E-009123). License: Public domain (NASA).

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Sources

  1. Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary, obituary "Ronald Ross (Runoko Rashidi)" (Primary source)
  2. The Washington Informer, Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr., "Runoko Rashidi, a Giant in Pan-African Scholarship" (2021) (Reference)
  3. AALBC, "Runoko Rashidi" author page (Reference)

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