John Fobanjong

John Fobanjong is Professor of Political Science at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Adjunct Professor at the United States
Naval War College. He teaches courses in civil rights, public
administration, international relations, comparative politics and
Governance and Economics in Africa. He has published three university
textbooks, including Understanding the Backlash Against Affirmative
Action (2001); The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Cape Verde’s Freedom
Fighter Amilcar Cabral 1924-1973: Essays on His Liberation Philosophy
(2006), and Political Perspectives: Essays on Government and Politics
(2005). Professor Fobanjong served as Director of the African and
African American Studies program at the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth from 2000 to 2005, and as a United States Fulbright Scholar
from 2009 to 2010. In 2014, he received the U.S. State Department’s
International Speakers’ Bureau Award and was a Keynote Speaker at the
celebration of the 30th anniversary of the independence of the Republic
of Cape Verde.