Expertise Afrocentric Theory, Diopian Theory, African Womanism, Culture, Curriculum, Africology, Education

Nah Dove is a proud mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, 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, encyclopaedic entries and a book, African Mothers. Nah Dove is writing a book titled Culture, Patriarchy and Race: The Demonization of Africa. Her accomplishments include her involvement in developing African-centred and Afrocentric schools and Education. She is currently teaching at Temple University in the Department of Africology and African American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.

Selected Publications

Book

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 

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.

Journal Articles

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.

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.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Critical Issues in Society 
• African American History and Culture
• Psychology of Social Change
• Introduction to African American Studies
• The Black Child
• Women of the African Diaspora
• The Black Woman
• African American History from 1900s
• Africa in the Twentieth Century
• Introduction to Black People in the Twentieth Century
• The African American Woman
• Women of Color
• The Black Child in the U.S.
  Representing Race

Graduate

• Seminar on W. E. B. Du Bois.  
• Seminar on the African American Woman
• Ethnographic Research
• The Black Child
• The Black Woman
• The Black Family
• Mass Media and the Black Community
• Contemporary Black Poets