Dr.

bdl Kambon
bdl Kambon was born in Brooklyn, New
York. At the age of one, his family relocated to
the small village of Wendell near Raleigh, North
Carolina. Upon completing high school, he
attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia
on a full academic scholarship where he majored in African American Studies. Upon
graduating magna cum laude from Morehouse, he went on to graduate school at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW-Madison, he majored in African Languages and
Literature on a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Also, he was
teaching assistant for Introductory Yoruba, Intermediate Yoruba and Introduction to
African Literature courses through the Department of African Languages and Literature.
While at UW-Madison, bdl focused on linguistics and within three years completed
two Master's Degrees; one in African Languages and Literature and one in Linguistics.

Upon completing graduate school, bdl taught at various tertiary institutions

throughout the Chicago area including, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State
University and Malcolm X College where he taught African Communications, Twi and
Yoruba. Concurrently, bdl taught at various educational institutions throughout
the Chicagoland area, from pre-school to high school including Dusable Leadership
Academy, Betty Shabazz International Charter School, Winnie Mandela Intergenerational
Alternative High School, Charles Hamilton Houston Alternative High School, New Concept
Pre-School, Barbara A. Sizemore Academy Middle School, the BSICS Community Shule
and Camp Cul-Tech. Subjects taught included Twi, Yoruba, Capoeira, Introductory
Kiswahili, Wolof and outdoor leadership survival skills. After three years in the Chicago
area, bdl moved to Ghana to pursue his PhD in Linguistics at the University of

Ghana at Legon. While completing his doctorate, he also taught at African University
College of Communications teaching Pan-Africanism, African Diaspora Studies, African
Biographies and African Spiritual Systems. bdl completed his PhD at University of
Ghana in 2012 earning the Vice Chancellor's Award for Best PhD Thesis in the
Humanities. He is now a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies and
coordinator of the UGRC African Language Program (2nd Semester), (2014-2015)
coordinator of the revamped IAS Thursday Seminar Series and coordinator of the new
graduate African Thinkers/African Thought program in which he will teach the core
course Foundations of African Thought. He is married to a lovely and supportive wife,
Kala, and has three beautiful and brilliant children, Ama, Kwaku and Akosua.