Academics

Womai Song

Assistant Professor of History & African and African American Studies

Programs/Departments

• History
• African and African American Studies

Degrees

• Ph.D., Howard University
• M.A., University of Buea (Cameroon)
• B.A., University of Buea (Cameroon)

Selected Courses

• African History to 1880
• African History Since 1880
• History of South Africa
• Neocolonialism
• The African Diaspora Experience
• Women, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Africa
• African-American History Since 1877

Future Courses

• Introduction to African & African American Studies
• The History of Pan-Africanism
• Globalization and Africans
• Assassinations

Biography

Womai Song is a proud son of the Kom Fondom. Kom is located in Boyo Division of the North-West Region of Cameroon. He received his B.A. & M.A. degrees in history from the University of Buea. He later studied and earned his Ph.D. in History and African Diaspora Studies at Howard University in Washington D.C. As a scholar of the historical and contemporary experiences of “modern” Africa and Africans, his primary research interests include: transitions and associated ramifications in colonial and post-colonial erstwhile German colonies; Sexual violence in Colonial Africa; enslavement and Colonialism in historical memory; Neo-colonialism, and Pan-Africanism.

Professional Memberships

• African Studies Association (ASA)
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Italian Association of African Studies (ASAI)
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History.