Ghanaian-born George Sefa Dei is a renowned educator, researcher, and writer who is considered by many as one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race, anti-racism studies, Black and minority education, African Indigeneity, and anti-colonial thought. He is a widely sought-after academic, researcher, and community worker whose professional and academic work has led to many Canadian and international speaking invitations in the US, Europe, and Africa. Currently, he is Professor of Social Justice Education & Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). On May 6, 2024, Professor Dei received an honorary doctorate from the University of South Africa at the University’s convocation ceremony with an address at the University’s convocation. On June 8, 2024, Professor Dei again received an honorary doctorate in Social Work from Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Professor Dei is the 2015, 2016, and 2018-19 Carnegie African Diasporan Fellow. Professor Dei has forty-seven (47) books, over eighty (80) refereed journal articles, as well as 78 chapters in books to his credit. Finally, in June of 2007, Professor Dei was installed as a traditional chief in Ghana, specifically, as the Gyaasehene of the town of Asokore, Koforidua, in the New Juaben Traditional Area of Ghana. His stool name is Nana Adusei Sefa Tweneboah.

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