Kassahun checole biography books

  • Africa World Press (AWP) is a publishing company founded in 1983 by Kassahun Checole in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, with a mission to publish books.
  • This award is a recognition and celebration of the work of a visionary thinker who has made far-reaching impacts on Africana scholarship worldwide by creating a.
  • Kassahun Checole, president and publisher of Africa World Press and The Red Sea Press, formerly taught at Rutgers University and El Colegio de Mexico.

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    Kassahun Checole Has Been Named Winner of PEN Eritrea’s Freedom of Expression Award 2023

     

    Publisher Kassahun Checole, the founder of the world-known Africa World Press and the Red Sea Press, has been named the winner of PEN Eritrea’s Freedom of Expression Award 2023. This year’s Awards Committee comprised Habtom Weldeyowhaness, Yirgalem Fisseha and Yonatan Tsighe (Dr), received a long list of contestants, and after an in-depth examination of the conditions, the judges selected Kassahun Checole as the winner of the Award.

    Kassahun’s colossal contribution to Eritrean and African literature requires another volume to give it full justice. Kassahun’s publishing activities, which he began in 1983, have enabled the voices of the subaltern to be heard. He produced books and magazines that inspired and continue to inspire many young, would-be African writers. Kassahun has published over 3,500 titles by thousands of authors in some 20 languages on vario

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    Kassahun Checole Prize in African Studies


    Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is delighted to offer a prize in honour of Kassahun Checole for the best and most innovative article submitted by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the field of African Studies. We encourage both African writers and all those writing on African topics. The first prize will be awarded in 2025.

    Submissions for the prize opened on 1 January 2024 and will close on 30 June 2025. A panel of African Studies specialists from the journal’s Academic Editor Team and editorial board will review and select the winning submission for publication in TWQ during 2025. Other entries may also be selected for publication, but there will only be one prize winner! The award winner will receive a US$1000 and a year’s gratis subscription to TWQ.

    Eligible authors are encouraged to submit their article to TWQ for  consideration. All submissions to the prize will be subject to the journal’s usual pee

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    Success Story from Eritrea: Kassahun Checole Founds Africa World Press and Red Sea Press

    By guest blogger Dr. Mussa Idris*

    Kassahun Checole is the founder and publisher of Africa World Press and the Red Sea Press. Mr. Checole was born in what is today Eritrea. While in secondary school in Keren, Eritrea, he enjoyed organizing a musical group and wrote poetry in his school’s first newsletter. Later, he started attending Haile Selassie University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but due to political demonstrations in 1969 in the University, Mr. Checole left school and started working at a clearinghouse in the port city of Massawa, Eritrea.

    In August of 1971, Mr. Checole migrated to the U.S. to further his undergraduate degree in political science and African-American studies and obtain his master’s grad in sociology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. While at SUNY, Mr. Checole began Third World Review, a monthly newspaper. He also became an active member of