Subject: Exciting News: Ɔbenfo (Professor) Ọbádélé Kambon Wins Prestigious Publication Award!

Dear Abibitumi Community,

We are thrilled to share some wonderful news with you! Our esteemed colleague, Ɔbenfo (Professor) Ọbádélé Kambon, has been honored with the 2024 Provost’s Publication Award for the Late-Career Best Published Work Category. This recognition is for his outstanding paper titled “400 Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in The Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative.”

The award was presented during the 3rd College Staff Awards ceremony held on July 12, 2024, at the ISSER Conference Hall, University of Ghana. This accolade celebrates Professor Kambon’s significant contributions to African Studies and his impactful research that continues to shape our understanding of historical narratives and their implications.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Ɔbenfo (Professor) Ọbádélé Kambon on this remarkable achievement. His dedication, scholarly excellence, and unwavering commitment to reclaiming and preserving African history are truly inspiring. This award is a testament to his tireless efforts and profound impact in the field.

Please join us in celebrating this prestigious honor and acknowledging the outstanding work of Ɔbenfo (Professor) Ọbádélé Kambon.

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Read the award-winning article here: https://obadelekambon.com/pubs..../400-years-ancestors

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In this UWP Scholar Spotlight, contributing scholar Talawa Adodo, Ph.D. discusses his contribution to Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.

Dr. Adodo’s scholarship engages African civilizations, African and Afro-Caribbean languages, Africology, cultural continuity, and questions of African identity across time and space. His contribution to Transcendental Africanity enters the volume’s larger conversation about Africanity, Global Africa, cultural memory, identity, language, Afrophobia, belonging, resistance, and African self-determination.

His work invites us to consider an important question at the heart of the volume:

How do African people understand themselves, their histories, and their connections to one another through African-centered intellectual and cultural frameworks?

Through the UWP Scholar Spotlight Series, readers move beyond the chapter title to encounter the scholars, questions, intellectual traditions, and research behind the scholarship.

ABOUT TRANSCENDENTAL AFRICANITY

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa brings together ten chapters by nine scholars examining the enduring connections among Africans and Afro-descendants while confronting the historical and contemporary forces that have produced separation, displacement, and Afrophobia.

The volume creates an interdisciplinary space for thinking about Africanity, identity, culture, language, historical memory, belonging, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination while asking what these ideas might mean for the future of Global Africa.

The book offers relevance for African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Africology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Language Studies, and related interdisciplinary fields.

FOR FACULTY, STUDENTS, LIBRARIANS & RESEARCHERS

Dr. Adodo’s Scholar Spotlight provides another pathway into the individual scholarship contained within this interdisciplinary volume.

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📚 BOOK INFORMATION

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa

Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

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