Salim FarajiSalim Faraji is a professor and former chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is also the founding executive director of the Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) Africa Program at Concordia Univrsity Irvine in Ghana, West Africa. He is a member of the International Society for Nubian Studies and a founding member of the William Leo Hansberry Society. He specializes in early Christian history, Africana and Africanist historiography, Coptic studies, and the Kerma, Napatan, Meroitic and Medieval periods of Nubian history. Professor Faraji is a contributor to Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna Child, the Encyclopedia of African Religion, the Oxford Dictionary of African Biography, and more recently, Origins and Afterlives of Kush: Proceedings of the University of California at Santa Barbara Conference in Nubian Studies, July 25- 27 2019. He is the author of The Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh. Professor Faraji is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a practicing African Traditional Priest who has been initiated in both the Akan traditions of Ghana, West Africa, and ancient Egyptian and Nubian religious practice. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of La Verne's Ecumenical Center for Black Church Studies, Payne Theological Seminary, and is currently president of the Amen-Ra Community Assembly of California-Amen Ra Theological Seminary. Read More Read Less