About ME

Hi, my name is Rasaq Malik. I am a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska. My One More Voice satellite project quests to document/archive/capture the life of J.E. Casely Hayford through the lens of history. For me, it is important to engage the life of this author in order to acknowledge his struggles for the rights of the African people, and for rising against colonialism through his books and creation of organizations that fought for African people. Being a pan Africanist, Casely Hayford engaged fervently the emancipation of the African people. He also engaged the issue of land tenure system, and the propagation of African culture, traditions, and religion. Another pivotal thing about this project is how history intersects with digitality. As an emerging scholar of digital humanities, working on this project has been an exercise in learning about Africans who contributed immensely to the emancipation of African people.

Also, I would like to acknowledge https://onemorevoice.org/index.html for the tremendous work of archiving indigenous authors. My One More Voice satellite project owes a lot to One More Voice.