Dr. Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum is Chair of the Department of Africana Studies and former Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her scholarly interests are in African and Diasporic cultural studies, with a focus on gender issues in local and global dimensions. Her current research explores African women’s verbal art and knowledge production; Africana women’s movements: from local organizing to global networking for social change; gender construction in language and society: from oral traditions to integration of African indigenous knowledge systems into global academic agendas and discourses. Her recent publications include “Embodying African Women’s Epistemology”, Writing through the Visual/Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean, “Negritude”, Africana Age: African and African American Transformations in the Twentieth Century, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, “Women’s Human Rights”, Gale Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, “The Yum: A Model of Sustainable Development”, African Gender Studies: A Reader, “Cultural Construction of Gender in African Oral Tradition: Images of Women in the Basaá Epic”, Women’s Studies Review, The Role of Women in World Peace & the Role of Men and Boys in gender Equity, “Translating the Basaa Oral Epic Bon ba Hiton”, Metamorphoses, Journal of Literary Translation, and “Celebrating the Heroic Life of an African Warrior Queen, A Hundred Years Later: Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen Mother of the Asante Empire”, Women’s Studies Review.
Dr. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum serves on the Advisory Board of Irinkerindo: A Journal of African Migration at www.africamigration.com and is affiliated with many professional organizations including the African Studies Association (ASA) and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). She holds a B.A., Université de Yaoundé, Cameroun; an M.Litt., University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and a Ph.D., University of Essex, England.
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