Talk:Sulayman S. Nyang

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I accidentally made Sulayman Nyang, not knowing this one existed. ~ UBeR 18:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Sulayman S. Nyang was born in the Gambia on August 12, 1944. He came to the United States of America in 1965 to study. He spent nine months at Saints Junior College in Lexington, Mississippi and then transferred in 1966 to Hampton Institute now called Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. He graduated from Hampton University in 1969 with a B.A. degree in political Science and Philosophy. He received a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Virginia in 1971 and a doctoral degree in government from the University of Virginia in 1974. From 1972 to 1975 he served as an Assistant Professor of African Studies at the African Studies Program at Howard University. He left Howard University to take up appointment as First Secretary and deputy ambassador of the Gambia in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. While serving in that post he had covered Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Somalia, Ethiopia, Bahrein and the United Arab Emirates.

After three years of diplomatic service in the Middle East he returned to Howard University where he served as Associate Professor from 1978 to 1986. In that year he was promoted to full professor and head of the African Studies Department. He held this position till 1993 when he set down and later accepted the position of Lead Developer at the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.He remained in that capacity till the opening of the Hall Hall under the new name of African Voices in 2000. During the 1997 to 2002 period Nyang also served as a Co-Director of the Muslims in American Public Square (MAPS. Under the MAPS he published with Dr. Zahid Bukhari, Mumtaz Ahmad and John Esposito the book on Muslims in the American Public Square, published by Altamira Press in 2004. Nyang has published several works listed on your website. He has written dozens of scholarly articles published in African, American, Asian, European and Latin American journals. He is on the editorial boards of several national and international publications.He has served on the governing boards of several academic organizations and is listed on the board of directors of many American Muslim organizations. Persons interested in Nyang's biography and rererences can locate them throughout the internet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.120.165 (talk) 07:13, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

not really a merge

There was no content at Sulayman Nyang which was not already here on this page, so I've removed the "merge" tags and converted the other article into a redirect. I was brought here by Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation. PamD (talk) 10:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)