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Yosef Ben-Jochannan
American historian and writer
Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan | |
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Ben-Jochannan lecturing in Brooklyn, c. 1990s | |
| Born | (1918-12-31)December 31, 1918 Claimed by Yosef Ben-Jochannan to be Gondar, Ethiopian Empire and by others to be Puerto Rico |
| Died | March 19, 2015(2015-03-19) (aged 96) Bay Park Nursing Home, Bronx, New York City, U.S. |
| Pen name | Dr.
Ben |
| Occupation | Writer, historian |
| Subject | Egyptology |
| Literary movement | Afrocentrism |
| Notable works | Black Man of the Nile and His Family |
| Notable awards | Honorary doctoral degree: Sojourner–Douglass College (Baltimore), Medgar Evers College (Brooklyn), Marymount College (Manhattan) |
Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan (; December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), commonly referred to as "Dr.
Ben", was an American writer and historian. He was considered to be one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars by some Black Nationalists. Conversely, mainstream scholars, such