Daniel Roberts is a doctoral student in the Department of Africology at Temple University. He received a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) from Temple’s Africology Department in 2023 and a Master of Arts (M.A.) Degree from the same in 2025.

Following his introduction to Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s six-episode documentary “Africa’s Great Civilizations” in 2017, he has been driven by an insatiable commitment to uncover Africa’s ancient history. Utilizing archival, historiographical and sociological methods, his research broadly looks at the history and culture of Classical Africa through the lens of cultural unity, with a focus on West African civilizations. More specifically, his research seeks to advance Ubiniology (the study of the history, culture and language of the Benin Empire) from a theoretical field of study conceptualized by Dr. Osarẹn Solomon Boniface Ọmọregie (1933 - 2015) to a practical sub-field of the discipline of Africology.

During his academic career, Daniel Roberts has worked on several African history-related projects. Since 2021, he has assisted Dr. Clyde Ledbetter in facilitating an online program called “Sankofa Community Courses”, sponsored through the organization Jaku Konbit. During the Spring 2023 semester, he was employed in Temple University’s Diamond Peer Teacher (DPT) program. Most recently, he began teaching the class “Pre-Colonial Africa” (50:014:241:01) at Rutgers-Camden in January 2026.

Courses Taught

• Pre-Colonial Africa - Africana Studies (Rutgers University)