Owen 'Alik Shahadah - Published Work

Published Work

Shahadah publishes articles in a variety of African journals such as African Executive, AllAfrica, African Holocaust and Pambazuka, Zimbabwe Herald and AllAfrica.com. Shahadah maintains that progressive African history keeps Africans as the primary agents of African history within an African cultural paradigm while at the same time meeting the highest threshold of good scholarship. He asserts that the tradition of "tarzan" or the hunter writing the history of Africa is an ongoing colonial threat to self-determination and justice. Alik Shahadah however states that "History and culture are far too dynamic to exclusively be articulated through the narrow window of race and color." He has written audio productions such as Torn land: Palestine, African Holocaust: Dark Voyages and co-written Afrikan Kingdoms. He has written a paper titled Linguistics for a new African reality which was adapted by the African Code. The paper identifies how sociolinguistic apply to self-determination. He is a critic of the terms black people and Sub-Saharan Africa, he states they are products of racism to undermine African history and cultural contributions. He also writes on slavery in Africa, Arabia and the Americas. He lobbies for free movement in Africa and an economic empowerment of African people globally and especially in places where they are the majority in the population.