Dinkenesh’s living quarters on the second floor of the Houston Museum of Natural Science is part of a 9,000 square-foot abode befitting a guest of her stature. Hers is a journey that began in antiquity in a site she might be unable to recognize or remember – a place we humans call Ethiopia.
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Zetha A. Nobles and Prof. Ernest Uwazie discuss achievement gaps between black and white students in the United States. Photos: Edwin Okong'o/Mshale.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Perhaps because of the stereotypes of high illiteracy associated with Africa, immigrants from the continent excelled in universities in the United States without anyone noticing. Then in 2007, “just out of curiosity,” Kefa M. Otiso,a Kenyan-born professor of Geography at Bowling Green State Universityin Ohio, started looking at African immigrant data from the 2000 U.S.census.