William Okrafo-Smart (Columbia University)

Submitted: Tuesday, 25 August 1998

William Okrafo-Smart
Columbia University

Mail address:
Center for Research
490 Bay Street
Staten Island, New York  10304  USA

phone: 718-420-9207
fax:   718-981-5713

Home address:
140 Park Hill Avenue, #55
Staten Island, New York  10304  USA

phone: 718-815-1584

Recent Affiliations:
July 1997--            "Visiting Scholar", Columbia University, New York
July 1996-June 1997    "Research Fellow", African House, Washington, DC
(International Research Project, sponsored by the Ford Foundation)
May 1994-June 1996     "Visiting Scholar", Tufts University, Medford,
Massachusetts
Jan. 1988-Apr. 1994    "Research Fellow & Visiting Professor", The Sierra
Leone Academy & the University of Sierra Leone, Freetown

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown (1987)

Research:
-- Black literature; Irish culture; socio-political, imperial & diplomatic
activities of African societies and Black communities

Publications:
-- "Development of African religions & philosophy." 
-- "Urbanization: explorations in the dramaturgy of elite culture in a
modern African society (case studies: Sierra Leone & The Gambia)."
-- "Karl Popper's philosophy of science, and social philosophy."
-- "IMF and developing countries."