Nah Dove

Nah Dove (born 1940s) is an author, lecturer and scholar in African-American studies. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Canada, the UK, and in the US, where she is an assistant professor instruction in the department of Africology and African American studies at the college of liberal arts, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Her book Afrikan Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change was published in 1998; some of her other publications include The Afrocentric School [a blueprint] (2021), Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse (Universal Write Publications, 2021) co-authored with Dr Molefi Kete Asante, and a contribution to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

Background Born to a Ghanaian father and an English mother, Nah Dove spent her early years in West Africa, before going with her family to live in Britain. She said in a 2015 interview with Angela Cobbinah: "I found England hostile and a place where I didn't fit in anywhere – I really hated school." She was in her early twenties when she first married and became a mother, and after the failure of a second marriage she successfully raised six children as a single parent. She went on to become an assistant professor in the department of African American studies there, Among other endorsements, one from Kariamu Welsh Asante notes: "Dr. Dove speaks as an Afrikan mother, activist, and scholar and this combination infuses her work with humility and conviction. Nah Dove is to be commended for this gift to all 'bearers of cultures.' Her wisdom makes her one of 'the women who gather at the grindstones.'" Her aunt Mabel Dove-Danquah was included in the earlier companion volume, Daughters of Africa (1992).

In 2019, Dove joined the faculty at the College of Liberal Arts, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is an assistant professor instruction in the department of Africology and African American studies.

Selected writings Books Afrikan Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change, State University of New York Press, 1998. The Afrocentric School [a blueprint], Universal Write Publications, 2021. Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse, Universal Write Publications, 2021.

Book contributions 1994: "The Emergence of Black Supplementary Schools as Forms of Resistance to Racism in the UK". In Shujaa, M. (ed.), Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Society. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 1996: "Understanding Education for Cultural Affirmation". In Roberson, E. (ed.), To Heal a People: African Scholars Defining a New Reality. 1998: "An African Centered Critique of Marx’s Logic". In Altschuler (ed.), The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists. Gordian Knot Books. University of Nebraska Press. 2003: "Defining African Womanism". In Mazama, A. (ed.), The Afrocentric Paradigm. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 2007: "African Mothers: A case study of Northern Ghanaian Women". In Mazama, A. (ed.), Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future. New York/London: Routledge. 2019: "Race and Sex, Growing up in the UK". In Busby, M. (ed.), New Daughters of Africa: An international anthology of writing by women of African descent, 2019.

Journal articles "Education and Culture: The Crisis of the African Intellectual", Urban Education, Vol. 31, Issue 4, 1 November 1996;31(4):357–380. "African Womanism: An Afrocentric Theory", Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 28, Issue 5, May 1998. "Defining a Mother-Centered Matrix to Analyze the Status of Women", Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 33, Issue 1, 1 September 2002, pp. 3–24. "A Return to Traditional Health Care Practices: A Ghanaian Study", Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 40, No. 5 (May 2010), pp. 823–834. "Race Revisited: Against a Cultural Construction bearing Significant Implications", International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, July 2018.