Milton Allimadi

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Milton Allimadi
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Born
Uganda
NationalityUgandan, American
Alma mater Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Syracuse University
Occupation(s)Academic, journalist, author, newspaper co-founder
Employer(s) Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Organization Black Star News
Known for

Milton Allimadi is a Ugandan-American author, journalist, professor, and a co-founder of Black Star News .

Contents

He is known for his critique of racist writing by white authors about Africa and Africans, in his 2003 book The Hearts of Darkness and his 2021 Manufacturing Hate .

Early life and education

Allimadi was born in Uganda. [1]

He graduated from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia and has a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from Syracuse University. [2]

Career

Journalism

Allimadi's first journalism job was as an intern at The Journal of Commerce before working at the Wall Street Journal. [2] He later worked freelance for the New York Times where his piece Inventing Africa pointed out the trend of white reporters fabricating stories about Africa. [3] [4]

In 1997, he became the founding editor of New York-based investigative newspaper Black Star News . [5] [2]

He criticized Ugandan peacekeepers seconded to the United Nations for acting as proxy police force for the United States. [6]

Allimadi wrote about the relief of Black Americans after Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 United States presidential election. [7]

Activism

In 2014, Allimadi created a petition to the United States State Department to revoke the visa of Ugandan politician Sam Kutesa. [8] [9]

Academia

Allimadi has worked as professor of African studies and an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. [7] As of 2022, he worked at the John Jay College and as an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. [10]

Literature

His book The Hearts of Darkness critiques the racist stereotypes that white writers perpetuate about Africa and Africans, specifically descriptions of barbarism, physical, moral and intellectual inferiority, denial of the positive contributions that Black people have made to culture, arts, science, and descriptions of Africa as inhospitable and uncivilized. [11]

Selected publications

  • Targeted Rapes to Spread HIV Started in Uganda, 2009, The New York Times [6] [12] [13]
  • The Hearts of Darkness - How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa , 2002, Black Star Books ISBN   9780974003900 [11]
  • Manufacturing Hate - How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media , 2021, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, ISBN   9781792466472 [14]

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  8. Williams, Carol J. (9 June 2014). "Ugandan named to head U.N. assembly faces criticism on human rights". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  9. "UN backlash as Uganda's 'anti-gay' minister heads for human rights top job". the Guardian. 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  10. Allimadi, Milton. "Joe Rogan's not Black — or is he?". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  11. 1 2 Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa. (2018). United States: Lexington Books. pages 191-192
  12. Garrison, Anne (18 Feb 2009). "Link TV quotes Nicholas Kristof calling for an earthquake in Congo". OpEdNews.
  13. Allimadi, Milton (5 Aug 2009). "Targeted Rapes to Spread HIV Started in Uganda". New York Times.
  14. "REVIEW - MANUFACTURING HATE HOW AFRICA WAS DEMONIZED IN WESTERN MEDIA". 28 Sep 2021.