Dr. Raphael Chijioke Njoku, an African history and Global studies professor at Idaho State University, received a doctorate in African history from Dalhousie University, Canada, in 2003. He earned a doctorate in Comparative African Politics in 2001 from Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium's top-ranked intensive research institution. Njoku's research fields include African intellectual and cultural history, decolonization, Diaspora studies, African politics, war and peace, and global studies. He has published 12 books and 50 academic articles. He is the author of West African Masking Traditions and African Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism (Rochester University Press, 2020), Co-author of United States and Africa Relations: 1400s to the Present (Yale University Press, 2020), and editor of War and Peace in Africa (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). Njoku has over ten years of administrative experience as chair and program director
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