Program in African American and African Studies

Halifu Osumare - Book Signing for Her First Book: The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves (2008)

• Sat March 14, 2 PM - Underground Books, Sacramento
• Fri May 2 - Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles
• Fri May 22 - Barnes and Noble, Jack London Square, Oakland

Information: hosumare@yahoo.com

Associate Professor of African American & African Studies, University of California, Davis
& 2008-9 Fulbright Scholar for West Africa

• Teaching at the University of Ghana, Legon
• Dancing with the Ghana National Dance Company
• The Slave Castle Experience
• Everyday Ghanaian Life & Perceptions of Black Americans
• African Reactions to President Obama's Election
• The West African Hip-Hop Scene - Ghanaian "Hiplife" (subject of forthcoming book)