Phoenix’ Advisory Board is made up of renowned scholars and prominent leaders who ensure the preservation of the ethical and universal values the company stands for (see our Mission Statement). The Advisory Board is made up of renowned scholars and prominent leaders who are published authors. The Board also includes young professionals who exhibited outstanding scholarly and leadership skills.
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The Advisory Board: Guarding the Keys of Excellence
Dr. West is one of America's most famous public intellectuals. His bestselling book, Race Matters, has become a contemporary classic, selling more than half a million copies.
Dr. Diagne is Columbia University's Director of Graduate Studies. A prominent Senegalese philosopher, his work focuses on the history of logic and mathematics, Sufism and the tradition of philosophy in the
Dr. Mirahmadi is the author of Islam and Civil Society, an important compilation of Islamic scholarship and the former Ssenior Advisor to the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
Sylvianne Diouf
Dr. Diouf is the author of the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America which received the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association and
Anthony Appiah
Dr. Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University
Boubacar Boris Diop
Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi: The Book of Remains, is the
West was an influential force in developing the storyline for the popular Matrix movie trilogy. He had a recurring role in the final two films.
Islamic world as well as African litteratures.
He has been named by Le Nouvel observateur one of the 50 greatest thinkers of our time.
the James Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association.
fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays.
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
She worked with governments to fight corruption, and to empower their people with the intellectual capital that could support a successful democracy.
Shaykh Kabbani is the Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA), an organization dedicated to supporting peace between Muslims and non-Muslims alike. ISCA commits to strengthening the values of
charity, family love, education and public responsibility in American life and stresses the common heritage of Islam, chrsitiany and Judaism.
F. Abiola Irele
Dr. Irele is a Nigerian academic who has been called the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He currently teaches African and African American Studies and of
Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D in French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne and held teaching positions at the University of Ghana, the University of Ibadan and Ohio State University.
Paulin Hountondji
Hountondji is a philosopher and politician hailing from Benin where he served as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications (1992-1994). He is a joint-laureate
of the Mohamed El Fasi 2004 prize and the Director of the African Centre of Higher Education in Porto-Novo. The American version of his book Philosophie africaine (Indiana University Press) was awarded the Herskovits Prize in 1984 and is part of the 100 best African books of the 20th century.
Amadou Mahtar Ba
Mr. Ba is the President of AllAFrica Global Media, a multi-million media group and the largest electronic distributor of African news worldwide and a strategic partner of BBC, Radio France Internationale.
The AllAfrica companies include AllAfrica Foundation, a non-profit organization that sponsors the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Fellowship for African women journalists.
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