Owen 'Alik Shahadah (Arabic: اليك شحادة, born 1973) is a director, writer, and Pan-Africanist scholar. He specializes in African culture, African slavery, and the Arab slave trade. He is best known for works that deal with African history, social justice, environmental issues, education and world peace. Born in Hanover, Germany, and educated in England, New York, and the Caribbean. He produces work that "articulates a multidimensional African world perspective". Testimony to this is 500 Years Later and Motherland. As a cultural writer he is a critic of the terms black people and Sub-Saharan Africa", which he considers "products of racism to undermine African history and cultural contributions". He argues for greater African agency and economic empowerment.
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1973 (age 52) Hanover, Germany
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