Nah Dove

Nah Dove

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Africology and African American Studies

    Assistant Professor - Instructional

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 616

Phone

(267) 270- 8548

Expertise

Africology, Afrocentric Theory, African Womanism, African Mothers, African American Studies, Black Child, Afrocentric episteme, Black Woman

Biography

Nah Dove is a proud mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, the U.S., and the UK. She graduated with a PhD from the U.S., with a focus on African Culture, Women and Education and has written articles, chapters, encyclopedic entries and 3 books, African Mothers (1998), Afrocentric Education (a Blueprint) (2021) and co-authored Being Human Being (2021) with Dr Molefi Kete Asante. Her accomplishments include her involvement in developing African-centred and Afrocentric schools. Nah Dove is an Assistant Professor of Africology at Temple University with a focus on African women particularly mothers, Education, and Africological episteme. 

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

Books

  • Forthcoming - Breaking the Boundaries of Race in Education: An Authentic Model. Corwin Press 
  • 2021. Dove, N. & Asante M. K., Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse. N.Y.: Universal Write Publications
  • 2021. The Afrocentric School: A Blueprint. N.Y.: Universal Write Publications.
  • 1998. Afrikan Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change. N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Book Contribution

  • 2019. “Race and Sex, Growing up in the UK”. In Busby, M.  (Ed.), New Daughters of Africa. Oxford.: Myriad Editions.

Award

  • 1999. Best Scholarly Book, Afrikan Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change. Awarded by the Association of Nubian Kemetic Heritage of the United States. 

Book Chapters

  • 2007. “African Mothers: A case study of Northern Ghanaian Women”. In Mazama, A. (Ed.), Africa in the 21st  Century: Toward a New Future. N.Y., London.: Routledge.
  • 2003. “Defining African Womanism”. In Mazama, A. (Ed.), The Afrocentric Paradigm. NJ, U.S.: Africa World Press.
  • 1998. “An African Centered Critique of Marx’s Logic”. In Altschuler (Ed.), The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists. U.S.: Gordian Knot Books. University of Nebraska Press.
  • 1996. ”Understanding Education for Cultural Affirmation”. In Roberson, E. (Ed.), To Heal a People: African Scholars Defining a New Reality.  
  • 1994. “The Emergence of Black Supplementary Schools as Forms of Resistance to Racism in the UK”. In Shujaa, M. (Ed.), Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Society. NJ, U.S.: Africa World Press.

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  • 2022. “Africology and the Problem of Whiteness in Contemporary Thinking”, Journal of Black Studies. July. DOI: 10.1177/00219347221100271.

  • 2018. “Race Revisited: A Cultural Construction Bearing Significant Implications”, International Journal of  African Renaissance Studies. October. DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2018.1538703.
  • 2008. “A Return to Traditional Healthcare Practices: A Ghanaian Study”. Journal of Black Studies. July. 
  • 2003. “Understanding the Status of Women”. JCTAW Journal of Culture and its Transmission in the African World.
  • 2002. “Defining a Mother-Centred Matrix to Analyse the Status of Women”. Journal of  Black Studies. September.
  • 1998. “African Womanism: An Afrocentric Theory”. Journal of Black Studies. May.
  • 1996. “Racialized Power Relations: An African Centred Critique of Marx’s Logic”. Western Journal of Black Studies. January.
  • 1996. “The Crisis of the Black Intellectual: Education for Cultural Affirmation. Urban Education. January.

Reports

  • 2003. Listening to the Children. Evaluation of Child School Community Process in Education (CHILDSCOPE). Ministry of Education/UNICEF. Ghana.
  • 2001. Baseline Study of Child Upbringing Practices in Some Communities of Seven Districts in Ghana.UNICEF. 

Encyclopedic Entries

  • Dove, N. (2015). “Cultural Identity” In Shujaa, M & Shujaa, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • “Cultural Imperialism” In Shujaa, M & Shujaa, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • “Cultural Unity” In Shujaa, M & Shujaa, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • “Medicine” In Shujaa, M & Shujaa, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • “African Women, Power of” In Shujaa, M & Shujaa, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Dove, N. (2005).  “Two Cradle Theory” In Asante, M. & Mazama, A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Black Studies. pp. 450-451. Thousand Oakes, CA, U.S.: London: New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Courses Taught 

Temple University, Philadelphia PA

2022

  • The Black Child (undergraduate)
  • The Black Family (undergraduate)
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • Representing Race (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Africology (undergraduate)
  • Ethnographic Methods (graduate)

2021

  • The Black Child (undergraduate)
  • The Black Family (undergraduate)
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • Representing Race (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Africology (undergraduate)
  • Afrocentric Theory and Methods (graduate)
  • Ethnographic Methods (graduate)
  • Seminar The African American Woman (graduate)

2019

  • Contemporary Black Poets (undergraduate)
  • Ethnographic Methods (graduate)
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • Mass Media and the Black Community (undergraduate)

1996-1997

  • Seminar on W. E. B. Du Bois. (graduate)
  • Seminar on the African American Woman. (graduate)
  • The Black Woman.  (undergraduate)
  • African American History from 1900s. (undergraduate)
  • The Black Child. (undergraduate)
  • Africa in the Twentieth Century. (undergraduate)

Medgar Evers College, New York

1998-2000

  • Critical Issues in Society (undergraduate)
  • African American History and Culture (undergraduate)
  • Psychology of Social Change (undergraduate)

State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y.

1997

  • Introduction to African American Studies (undergraduate)
  • The Black Child (undergraduate)
  • Women of the African Diaspora (undergraduate)

1991-1993

  • The Black Child in the U.S. (undergraduate)                    

Pennsylvania State University, PA.

1994-1996

  • Introduction to Black People in the Twentieth Century. (undergraduate)
  • The African American Woman. (undergraduate)
  • Women of Color. (undergraduate)