Curriculum Vitae
OPOKU AGYEMAN
TELEPHONE: (973) 655‑7578 (Office)
FAX: (973) 655‑5455
E-MAIL ADDRESS: agyemano@mail.montclair.edu
EDUCATION: Ph.D., York University, Toronto
M.A., Makerere University
B.A., University of Ghana
EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
1982 to Present Associate Professor and Professor, Montclair State University
1994‑1995 Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1989 Visiting Professor, Drew University
1982 Visiting Professor, Bard College
1979‑1982 Assistant Professor, Cornell University
1977‑1979 Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
1976‑1977 Lecturer, University of Dar‑es‑Salaam
1975‑1976 Lecturer, University of the West Indies at Trinidad
SAMPLE OF COURSES TAUGHT
Theories of Development
The Essence of the Chinese Developmental Experience
African Political Thought
Modern Political Thought
Pan‑Africanism: Past and Present
The Political Economy of Development in the Black World
Traditional Socio‑Economic Systems of Africa and Modernity
The African Liberation Movement and Southern Africa
The Politics of Labor in Africa
American Foreign Policy and Its Implications for African People
Student Activism in the University and Society
The American Political System and the Politics of African‑Americans
Modern African Political Systems
The Politics of Development Administration in Africa
Politics, Conflict and Social Change in Southern Africa
The Politics of the Developing World
The International Political Economy
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Development in Africa
Comparative Government and Politics in Africa
Introduction to Politics
Comparative Politics
The American Political Process
The Institutions of American Government
Government and Politics of China and Japan
The "Third World" in the International System
International Relations
American Foreign Policy
The Politics of International Economic Relations
The Theories and Politics of Integration Movements
International Organizations
Political Biography
Globalization and Its Implications
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs
The Failure of Grassroots Pan-Africanism: The Case of the All-African Trade Union Federation, Lexington Books, 2003
Africa's Persistent Vulnerable Link to Global Politics, iUniversity Press, New York, 2001
Pan‑Africanism and Its Detractors, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1998.
Nkrumah's Ghana and East Africa: Pan‑Africanism and African Inter‑State Relations, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992.
Pan‑Africanist Federalism, Center for Economic Research on Africa, 1991.
Requisite Values for the Political and Economic Development of Africa, Center for Economic Research on Africa, 1990.
The Pan‑Africanist Worldview, The International University Press, 1985.
Book Chapters
“Pan-Africanism Versus Pan-Arabism: A Dual Asymmetrical Model of Political Relations” in Michael Curtis, Ed., The Middle East Reader, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ, 1986.
"Crossroads" in The Nearness of Day, published by The National Library of Poetry, Watermark Press, Owings Mills, Maryland, 1998.
"Concerning the Extraneousness of the Short Wave Radio in American Culture" in Grover Furr (Ed.), Critical Thinking and the Media, Institute for Critical Thinking, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1995.
“The US Supreme Court and the Enforcement of African-American Rights: Myth or Reality” in Claude W. Barnes Jr. et al., eds., American National and State Government: An African American View of the Return of Redemptionist Politics, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 1997.
Articles
“The Ideological Roots of Darfur Genocide”, Africa Notes, November/December, 2004
“The Irrevocable Imperative of Political Integration in Africa”, New Africa, No. 388, September 2000.
“The Politics of Thievery of Black Culture”, African Personality, Vol. 4, No. 3, May/June 2000.
“Repositioning Africa for the 21st Century”, African Personality, Vol. 4, No. 1, January/February 2000.
“The Bank, The Fund, and Africa”, African Personality, Vol. 3, No. 1, January/February 1999.
“Post-Bipolarity Recklessness in International Relations”, African Personality, Vol. 3, No. 2, March/April 1999
"The Politics of Deadly Polarization Between the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi: Causes and a Proposal for Solution," African Personality, Vol. 2, No. 5, September/October 1998.
"Ghana: 41 Years After," African Personality, Vol. 2, No. 2, March/April 1998.
"The 'Ideologese' of the English Language," African Personality, Vol. 2, No. 1, January/February 1998.
“On the Concept of a Failed State,” African Personality, Vol. 1, No. 1, November/December, 1997.
"Pan‑Africanism Versus Multiracialism in Southern Africa," Black Renaissance: The Heritage and Policy Journal of the Black World, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995.
"The U. S. Supreme Court and the Enforcement of African‑American Rights: Myth and Reality," P. S.: Political Science and Politics, Volume XXIV, No. 4, December 1991. Article has been cited in Sociological Abstracts and has also appeared in The Black Scholar, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1991, and The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1991.
"Where Does the West Stand on Democratization and Integration in Africa?" The Montclarion, October 28, 1990.
"Concerning the Extraneousness of the Short Wave Radio in American Culture," Inquiry, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 1990.
"U. S. Foreign Policy Towards South Africa: A Multiple Value Supersession Model," Crossroads, No. 30, 1990. Reprinted in The New England Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 9, 1990‑1991.
"African‑Israeli Relations: A Prognosis," Crossroads, No. 29, 1989.
"Setbacks to Political Institutionalization by Praetorianism in Africa," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Volume 26, No. 3, September 1988. Abstract of article published in International Political Science Abstracts, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1990.
"Of Friends and Foes of Nkrumaism," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Volume 26, No. 2, June 1988.
"'Terrorism': A NonWestern View," Monthly Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, May 1987.
"Africa: 1885‑1985," Strive, Spring 1985.
"The African Publius," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1985. Abstract of article published in International Political Science Abstracts, Vol. 35, No. 7, 1986.
"In Defense of Pan‑Africanism," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1984.
"Pan‑Africanism Versus Pan‑Arabism: A Dual Asymmetrical Model of Political Relations," Middle East Review, Vol. XVI, No. 4, Summer 1984. Abstract of article published in International Political Science Abstracts, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1985. Reprinted in: Michael Curtis, Ed., The Middle East Reader, Transaction Books, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and Oxford (U.K.), 1968, pp. 21‑46; Black Renaissance: The Heritage and Policy Journal of the Black World, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1994.
"The Political Uses of Light Skin", Comment, Vol. III, Numbers 3 and 4, Spring 1984.
"PanAfricanist‑Marxist Analytical Polarities”, Mawazo, Vol. 1, No. 2, May 1983.
“Revisiting the Cuban Military Presence in Angola," Comment, Vol. II, Numbers 1 and 2, Spring 1983.
"The Peasantry and Underdevelopment in Africa," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. XIX, No. 4, December 1981.
"Pan‑Afederalism: A Spiritual Model of Integration for Africa," The Journal of Black Academia, May 1981.
"Pan‑Africanism and Miscegenation," The Western Journal of Black Studies, Spring 1981.
"Pan‑Africanism and the Angola Crisis," Studia Africana, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1979.
"The SuperMarxists and Pan‑Africanism," Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, June 1978.
"The Overlooked Spiritual Factor in Africa," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. XV, No. 3, September 1977.
"Kwame Nkrumah and Tom Mboya: 'Nonalignment' and Pan‑African Trade Unionism," Presence Africaine, No. 103, 3rd Quarterly, 1977.
"The Osagyefo, The Mwalimu and Pan‑Africanism," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1975.
"Kwame Nkrumah's Presence in A.M. Obote's Uganda: A Study in the Convergence of International and Comparative Politics," Transition, No. 48, 1975.
"B.D.G. Folson's Social Scientific Deity," Transition, No. 47, 1974.
Reviews
A review article of Kwame Nkrumah: The Political Kingdom in the Third World by David Rooney, London, I. B. Tauris & Co., 1988; and Nkrumah and Ghana: The Dilemma of Post‑Colonial Power by Kofi Buenor Hadjor, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1988; published in The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1990.
Review Article of Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , published in Africa Today, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1973.
Other Works
“The EU-US Banana Dispute and the WTO: Lessons and Ramifications”, 2004.
“Freedom of Expression, The Public Interest, and Cinematic Racism”, 2000.
“Globalization & Structural Adjustment in Africa”, 1997.
“Kumase Modernization Project: A Proposal”, contained in an Open Letter to The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, October 25, 1999.
"U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa: From Invisibility to Visibility?", Montclair State University, 1998.
"The Pan‑African University: A Proposal," 1990.
"The Chameleon: A Television Program Proposal," 1990.
"The Black Star Club: A Television Program Proposal," 1990.
"The Going‑Back‑Home Man: A Screenscript," 1990.
"Toward a Recrudescence of African Culture," an External Evaluation Report on N.E.H. Summer Institute on African‑American Culture, 1987.
"The Judiciary: Toward a Comparative Developmental Framework," 1986.
"'Introduction to African‑American Culture': An Evaluative Proposal," 1986.
"ANC or PAC Rule in South Africa? The Tortuous Path of Political Superficiality and Opportunism in Africa," 1986.
"Frantz Fanon: A Study in Autophobia," 1985.
"Academic Carciquismo at Cornell," 1982
"Reflections on the Africana Center of Cornell University," 1981.
"Nigeria: The African Anti‑Catalyst," 1981.
"Monsieur Mitterand, La France et L'Afrique," 1981.
"Notes on Hobbesian Uganda," 1981.
"Proposal Toward the Enhancement of the Organizational Elan of Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center," 1981.
A Review of the Liberian Codification Project of Cornell University, 1980.
Letter to the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Republic of Ghana, on "The Critical Political and Social Imperatives of the Ghanaian Situation," June 1979.
Letter to his Excellency Yusufu Lule, President of the Republic of Uganda, on "The Asians and Uganda," June 1979.
"The Intervention: A Proposal for an Ideological Screenscript", March 1978.
"Mr. Carter, The West and Africa," 1978.
"Trevor Jones' Nkrumah," 1976.
"Reflections on Scott Thompson's 'Rationality'," 1976.
"The People's Republic of China and Africa: A Study in Guerrilla Diplomacy," 1975.
"Youth and Politics in Ghana: A Case Study in Student Inactivism," 1975.
SELECT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
November 2003 Invited Participant, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Study of
the Impact of Electronic Technologies on American Academia.
2001-Present Faculty Advisor to the Native African Students Organization (NASO)
a Class III Organization of Montclair State University’s Student
Government Association.
September 2000 Reviewer of “Making ECOWAS Sustainable in the Twenty-first
Century”, for Journal of Comparative Education and International
Relations in Africa.
February 26,1999 Participant in a Symposium on “A Renaissance of Consciousness:
A Critical Dialogue,” marking African American Heritage Month.
November 1998 Presentation on “The International Political Economy” at a
Sociology of Rich and Poor Nations class, Montclair.
1997 Chair, Drafting Committee, Fulbright Scholar‑in‑Residence
Application for Montclair State University, 1998‑1999.January 1997
1997 Evaluator of manuscript, The Politics of Economic
Restructuring and Democracy in Africa for Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press.
October 1996-Present Evaluator of N.E.H. Applications.
Winter 1996 to
Spring 1997 Member, Drafting Committee, "Fulbright Group Project Abroad‑-South Africa," under the aegis of Global Studies Consortium of New Jersey Colleges and Universities.
June 1997 Evaluation of Candidacy for Professorial Promotion for Northeastern University.
May 1995 Participant in Select Small Group of Full Professors’ Discussion Meeting on “The Essence and Foundations of Faculty Development at Montclair State University.
1995 to Present Member, Global Studies Consortium of New Jersey Colleges and Universities.
November 1994 Reviewer of "Kwame Nkrumah, Politics, Ideology and Academic Freedom," for Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, South Africa.
September 1994 Evaluator of Candidacy for Professorial Tenure and Promotion, Northeastern University.
March 1992 Judge of essay competition organized by The Sisters of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, Inc., and the Brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.,
September 1992 Evaluator of manuscript on Dimensions of Africa's International Relations for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
June 1992 Evaluator of manuscript on Political Ideology and Foreign Policy in Nigeria for Prentice Hall.
1990‑91 Faculty Senate Representative on the President's Commission on Affirmative Action, Montclair State University.
1990‑91 Department Chairs' Representative on the Library Committee, Montclair State University.July 1990 ‑
June 30, 1999 Head of Department of Political Science , Montclair State University.
1990 Member, Committee on Global Education and Multiculturalism, Montclair State University.
April 1990 Participant in Montclair State University Chairpersons' Retreat, Tamiment Resort Center in the Poconos, PA.
February 1990 Founder and Incorporator of The Pan‑African Society and Foundation, committed to the Pan-African University and The Pan-African University Curriculum Projects.
1990 Member, Executive Committee of New Jersey Political Science Association.
February 1989 Reader of Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination for the Graduate School, Drew University.
1989 Evaluator of manuscript, Urban Development in the Third World, for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1988‑90 At‑Large Member of the President's Commission on Affirmative Action, Montclair State University.
1988‑89 Member, Minority Student Enrollment Committee, Montclair State University.
1987‑1992 Member, Outcomes Assessment Committee, Montclair State University.
June‑July 1987 External Evaluator, N.E.H. Summer Institute on African‑American
Culture, Trenton State College.
Spring 1986 Evaluator of Visiting Scholars Working on the Development of an "Introduction to African‑American Culture" course for Trenton State College, under a New Jersey Department of Higher Education Humanities Grant.
1985-86 Member, Task Force on Academic Programs, Montclair State University.
1985‑92 Member, Honors Advisory Board, Montclair State University.
October 1985 Resource Person, National Anti‑Apartheid Protest Activities, Montclair‑North Essex YWCA.
1984‑1990 Deputy Chair, Department of Political Science, Montclair State University.
1984 Member, Committee on International Studies and Programs,
Montclair State University.
1983-1997 Member, Advisory Board, Center for Economic Research
on Africa(CERAF)
1982‑1989 Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University.
1981 Member, Ph.D. Thesis Special Committee, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University.
1981 Member, M.A. Thesis Special Committee, African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
1980‑1982 Patron, African Students Association, Cornell University.
1978‑1979 Advisor, The Pan‑African Collective, University of California, Berkeley.
1978‑1979 Member, Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
1970‑1972 Advisor, Students Guild, Makerere University.
1965‑1966 Secretary, Ghana National Students Association (GHANASO), University of Ghana.
SELECT PUBLIC LECTURES AND BROADCASTS
September 2000 “Freedom of Expression, The Public Interest and Cinematic
Racism”, 2nd National Conference on Civil/Human Rights
Of Africanans, Memphis, TN.
April 2000 Keynote Speaker on “The Repositioning of Africa in the
Twenty-first Century”, Fourth Symposium on Africology,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
September 24, 1998 "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa: From Invisibility to Visibility?", Chicago State University.
July 27-August 6, 1998 Series of Lectures at Summer Institute for Visiting
Ghanaian University Students, organized by Montclair
State University’s Center for Continuing Education and
the Global Education Center.
March 7, 1997 "The Continuing Singular Relevance of a Pan‑African Solution to Africa’s Problematic Realities," Cornell University.
November 20, 1997 Interview Broadcast on “The Vision and Praxis of Pan-Africanism”
On “Welcome Africa 2000,” WMSC-90.3
July-August 1997 Series of Lectures at Summer Institute for Visiting
Ghanaian University Students, organized by Montclair
State University’s Center for Continuing Education and
the Global Education Center.
November 21, 1996 "African Realities at the Threshold of the 21st Century," Chicago State University.
July 29, 1996 "The United States and the World," for visiting National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), as part of the workshop sponsored by The Center for Continuing Education and The Global Education Office at Montclair State University.
June 8, 1996 "Economic Globalization and World Poverty‑‑Africa," in conjunction with The Global Education Project's Summer Institute 1996 on "Globalization and Environmental Sustainability: Changing Existing Pedagogies," Ramapo College, New Jersey, June 3‑11, 1996. The Institute was part of a three-year, U.S. Department of Education Title VI International Studies and Foreign Language Grant.
May 2, 1996 "Ghanaian Political Communities and the 1996 National Elections," Drew University, May 2, 1996, as part of the Drew International Seminars‑‑academic programs designed to provide for the intensive study of another culture.
March 5, 1996 "Sugar, Slavery and Racism: The Background Story of Black America," presented on March 5, 1996 at St. Cloud School, West Orange, New Jersey.
March 6, 1995 "A View of Current International Affairs" for the Current Events
Class of HCAVTS/High Tech High School of North Bergen, NJ
February 25, 1995 "Broad, Historical, Explanatory Notes on the Contemporary Condition of Africa and Africans Around the World," Orange, New Jersey, sponsored by The Haitian‑American Advancement Society. (Event covered extensively in Orange Transcript, Orange, New Jersey, March 2, 1996, p. 1.)
March‑April 1994 Series of four lectures on African Politics to the Life Long Learning Program of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan New Jersey, in West Orange, New Jersey.
March 26, 1992 "The Politics of Integration and Disintegration in Africa" at Felician College, sponsored by the New Jersey Council of Consortia for International‑Global Education.
March 5, 1992 "The Cultures of Africa," Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.
July 17, 1991 "The Causes of World Hunger," WABC 77 AM Radio, New York City.
April 16, 1990 "Civil Consciousness" to the Acquinas Faculty Seminar in the 20th Anniversary Year, sponsored by the Acquinas Steering Committee, Drew University.
April 5, 1990 "Global Education: Cultural and Technological Perspectives" at the Montclair State University Presidential Symposium.
March 28, 1989 "The Political Economy of Africa and Its Relation to the United States," Brown Hall, Drew University.
January 2, 1988 "U.S. and Africa: Some Comparative Development Perspectives," sponsored by the Superintendent of Montclair Schools, for the benefit of a group of international women visiting the U.S. under the Cornwall Formation Program.
July 6, 1987 "The Economic, Political and Racial Variables in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Africa" at N.E.H. Institute on African-
American Culture, Trenton State College.
April 23, 1985 "The African Publius" at the University of Rochester.
October 3, 1984 "Perspectives on African‑Middle East Politics," Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, New York.
September 3, 1984 "Israeli Political Images in the African Mind" at the Forum of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, New York City.
August 14 and
19, 1984 "The Contemporary Political Situation in Africa," National Public Radio Broadcast, WNYC Radio, New York City.
July 15 and
22, 1984 "Africa in the International Setting" on the Barry Farber Show, WMCA Radio, New York City.
March 23, 1983 "The Africans and the Arabs" at the Public Library, Newark, New Jersey.
February 25, 1983 "Marxism and Pan‑Africanism: Complementarities and Tensions," Stanford University.
February 23, 1983 "Pan‑Africanism and the Arab World," University of California at Berkeley.
November 18, 1982 "Africa‑Middle East Cross Currents," at Bard College, New York.
August 19, 1982 "Pan‑Racialism or Pan‑Africanism?" at the Shrine Cultural Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
May 13, 1982 "The Realism of Pan‑Africanism" at Wells College, New York.
February 18, 1981 "Pan‑Africanism in Africa" at the Tioga County Historical Society, Oswego, New York.
February 28, 1979 "Pan‑Africanism and Miscegenation," Stanford University.
November 8, 1979 "The Essence of Pan‑Africanism" on KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA.
November 2, 1978 "Pan‑Africanism and the Angolan Crisis," Stanford University.
September 16, 1978 "The Impact of Zaire on Southern African Liberation Struggles," Bethlehem Lutheran Community Center, Oakland, CA.
October 2, 1976 "Pan‑Africanism: Past and Present," for the TANU Youth League, University of Dar‑es‑Salaam.
November 5, 1974 "The Career of the Osagyefo" at the International Student Center, University of Toronto.
SELECT CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTES
August 1-6 2004 Participation, by special invitation, in the Oxford Round Table
at St. Anthony’s College in the University of Oxford,
on the major issues affecting trade and financial relations between the European Union and the United States. Presented a paper entitled “The U.S-E.U Banana Dispute: Ramifications and Lessons.”
May-June 2003 Successful Development of Panel Proposal on “Charting A Grassroots Road to Political Integration in Africa” in connection
with the International Political Science Association’s 19th World
Congress, Durban, South Africa.
April 20-22, 2000 Participant and Keynote Speaker on “The Repositioning of Africa in
the Twenty-First Century,” Fourth Symposium on Africology,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
July 27‑29, 1998 Instructor, Summer Institute for University Students from Ghana, sponsored by the Center for Continuing Education and the Global Education Center at Montclair State University.
June 14‑21, 1998 Participant, Fourth International Faculty Development Seminar on "Hungary and Central Europe: A Region in Transition," in Budapest, Hungary, organized by the Council on International Educational Exchange.
August 16‑22, 1997 Invited Participant, International Political Science XVIIth World Congress, Seoul, Korea. Title of presentation: "Globalization and Structural Adjustment in Africa: The Hyper‑Brutal Phase of Neocolonialism."
Sept. 15‑19, 1996 Received invitation to participate in Workshop on Regional Integration in Africa, Accra, Ghana, sponsored by the Association of African Universities and the European Union.
April 22, 1996 Center for Economic Research on Africa (CERAF) International Conference on "Promoting Equity Markets in Africa," Montclair, New Jersey.
June 15‑19, 1995 The International Political Science Association's Conference on "The Foundations of Economic and Political Democracy," Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
March 9‑12, 1994 Twenty‑fifth Annual Meeting of the National Conference of
Black Political Scientists, Hampton, VA. Title of Presentation:
“The Detractors of Pan-Africanism.”
April 27‑29, 1993 Received Invitation to Participate in The Group of Eminent Persons on Reparations to Africa and Africans in the Diaspora‑‑a Pan‑African Conference on Reparations for African Enslavement, Colonization and Neo‑Colonization, sponsored by the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.) at Abuja, Nigeria
May 6‑8, 1991 Conference on Environmental Policies for Sustainable Growth in Africa, Upper Montclair, NJ.
April 6, 1991 New Jersey Political Science Annual Meeting, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.
March 21‑23, 1991 The Western Political Science Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
June 19‑21, 1990 Summer Workshop on Democratic Theory, Institute for Critical Thinking, Montclair State University.