Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University, USA.

• Introduction PART ONE: THE PRIVATE SOJOURNS 1. African Scholars and the Question of Exile 2. My South African American Story 3. Reflections on Exile: The Case of Ethiopians 4. Understanding the relevance of Cultural Competence Towards African Scholars in American Academy: Personal Experiences 5. In Search of Knowledge in North America: Challenges and Possibilities PART TWO: PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES 6. In Spite of the Odds: A Nigerian Woman’s Experience of Navigating the US Academy 7. Tenure, Promotion, and Recognition: Challenges of Race, Ethnicity and Gender 8. Going with the flow: The unplanned journey in a Predominantly White Institution 9. Boundaries of Exclusion and Inclusion: Africans and the Western Academy PART THREE: IDENTITY, HOPE, AND ASPIRATIONS 10. Post-independence African Scholars and the Second Liberation Struggle 11. On Scholarship and the Hyphenated African Identity 12. The Fallacy of Unity Between Africans and the African Americans 13. African-born Scholars and Accent Discrimination: The Last Acceptable Form of Prejudice