Professor Nkiru Nzegwu, artist, curator, and poet, has introduced first-ever courses at Binghamton University such as Philosophy of Orisha Worship and Hip-Hop I and II. Among Dr. Nzegwu's areas of expertise are African aesthetics, philosophy, African feminist issues, and multicultural studies in art. Nzegwu is currently serving as Chair of Africana Studies at Binghamton University. She has a B.A in Fine Arts and an M.A. in Philosophy, both from University of Ife, and a PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from University of Ottowa.
 

Internet educational initiative
Dr. Nzegwu is founder of africaresource.com, an award-winning educational web site. Among the website's features are a searchable database of scholarly journal articles, art gallery, scholar profiles, poetry, and oral histories. Africaresource.com has been featured by such recognizable media firms as BBC and PBS.

Africaresource.com has grown since its inception in 1999 to serve over 10 million users from over 90 countries with 110,000+ users a week. The journals featured on africaresource.com are linked to over 130 university libraries worldwide, and have won international awards for excellence in electronic publication from NSF Scout Report and International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publishing.
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