The Thabo Mbeki Award for Leadership: Professor Paul Zeleza
The Board of TOFAC, the Board of Pan-African University Press, and the Ibadan Cultural Group, University of Ibadan conferred the 2018 Thabo Mbeki Award for Leadership on Professor Paul Zeleza on July 5, 2018. The Thabo Mbeki Award for Leadership is awarded to an African who has distinguished him/herself in the public or private sector. The recipient of the award must be an individual of a high caliber with unblemished record of public service or in the private sector. The awardee must be someone who is committed to the project of African Renaissance and African Unity. This year's recipient is Professor Paul Zeleza.
Professor Zeleza is currently the President/Vice-Chancellor of United States International University Africa, Nairobi Kenya. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Malawi and M.A. degree from the University of London, where he studied African history and international relations. He earned his Ph.D. in economic history from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and years later he was conferred by his Alma mater with an honorary doctorate for his distinguished accomplishments. His research interests include intellectual history; African studies; gender studies; diaspora studies; human rights and African literature. His academic work has crossed traditional boundaries, ranging from economic and intellectual history to human rights, gender studies and diaspora studies.
He has published more than 300 journal articles, book chapters, reviews, online essays and short stories and authored or edited numerous books, several of which have won international awards including Africa's most prestigious book prize, the Noma Award, for A Modern Economic History of Africa and Manufacturing African Studies and Crises. His recent books include Africa's Resurgence: Domestic, Global and Diaspora Transformations, Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions, and In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters.
In addition to the Noma Award, Paul Zeleza is also the recipient of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2003; Honorable Mention, Conover-Porter Award, 2004; and of numerous grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, US Department of Education Title VI, National Endowment for the Humanities, Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.
Professor Zeleza is a widely traveled academic who has given inspiring academic and leadership lectures as guest speaker and Keynote addresses in France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Italy, Britain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Venezuela, Brazil and several African countries; and the United States of America.
His impact as Vice-Chancellor includes the infrastructural expansion of USIU-Africa, the building of a Research Park and medical hospital, extensive linkages with programs in the Unite States, a green environment, and the involvement of students in the day-to-day management of the campus.
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