Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan | |
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 Ben-Jochannan lecturing in Brooklyn, c. 1990s | |
| Born | December 31, 1918 Claimed by Yosef Ben-Jochannan to be Gondar, Ethiopian Empire and by others to be Puerto Rico |
| Died | March 19, 2015 (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 (/ˈbɛn ˈjoʊkənən/; December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), 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, while most mainstream scholars, such as Mary Lefkowitz,[1] dismissed him because of the basic historical inaccuracies in his work, as well as disputes about the authenticity of his educational degrees and academic credentials.[2]