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Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan | |
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 Ben-Jochannan lecturing in Brooklyn, c. 1990s | |
| Born | December 31, 1918 Claimed by Yosef Ben-Jochannan to be Gondar, Ethiopian Empire and by others to be Puerto Rico |
| Died | March 19, 2015 (aged 96) Bay Park Nursing Home, Bronx, New York City, U.S. |
| Pen name | Dr. Ben |
| Occupation | Writer, historian |
| Subject | Egyptology |
| Literary movement | Afrocentrism |
| Notable works | Black Man of the Nile and His Family |
| Notable awards | Honorary doctoral degree: Sojourner–Douglass College (Baltimore), Medgar Evers College (Brooklyn), Marymount College (Manhattan) |
Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan (/ˈbɛn ˈjoʊkənən/; December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), referred to as "Dr. Ben", was an American writer and historian. He was considered to be one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars by multiple generations of traditional scholars as well as influential educators, businesspersons, and grassroots activists. Other scholars with little expertise in African history, such as Mary Lefkowitz,[1] attempted to dismiss him based on her primarily Eurocentric worldview. However, Ben-Jochannan's successful challenge to the contemporary Western societal views of James Breasted, that Northern Africa was the sole domain of "the Great white race", rather, that there were kingdoms in the region ruled by Black cultures, has been accepted as factually correct.[2]