Contact Info
Campus Mail
Drawer 25
Phone
765-983-1478
E-mail
songwo@earlham.edu
Office
209 Landrum Bolling Center
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.