FROM GHANA TO RUSSIA TO CANADA TO UNITED STATES: WAYNE STATE PROFESSOR OFFERS CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE
FROM GHANA TO
RUSSIA TO CANADA TO UNITED STATES: WAYNE STATE
PROFESSOR OFFERS CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE
The Calabrians Multicultural World Society, Inc. begins a series of focus articles on individuals that have made outstanding contributions to society. Dr. Charles Quist-Adade has brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to North America. Both Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and the University of Windsor, Ontario have benefitted greatly from his research in the field of race and ethnic relations and the mass media.
Dr. Quist-Adade attained a Diploma in journalism from Ghana Institute of Journalism, MA in Mass Communication from Leningrad State University in Russia and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Petersburg State University in Russia.
Dr. Quist-Adade settled with sociology after a stint with Journalism because he found sociology to be a field that allows for a deeper, more in-depth, more sober, less rushed analysis of social issues and problems. He also saw a marriage between journalism and sociology as a compatible one, one that will afford the opportunity to utilize in an effective way, the strengths of the two fields.
Before Dr. Quist-Adade came to Wayne State University, he worked as a newspaper journalist and radio broadcaster for the Ghanaian Times and Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, as well as a press officer for the Hungarian Embassy in Accra Ghana before heading to Russia, where he worked as a correspondent for the London (U.K.)-based syndicated Gemini News Service in Leningrad. While in Russia Dr. Quist-Adade combined graduate studies with journalistic work. He stringed for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), African Service and London-based African magazines, including New African, Africa Events, West Africa and African Concord. His articles from Russia were published by newspapers in several countries around the world, including the United States.
Dr. Quist-Adade chose WSU because he sees this university as providing a congenial environment for productive research and teaching. Another reason why he chose WSU is because of its ethnic and racial mix, faculty and student population-wise. Also because of its proximity to Canada where he currently resides.
Dr. Quist-Adade teaches sociology and mass communication courses in University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. At WSU, he teaches Sociological Theory and Social Psychology. He will, depending on enrollment, begin teaching a new course "Sociology of International Inequality and Underdevelopment" in fall of 2000. Dr. Quist-Adade is interested in race and ethnic relations, mass media, and theory. Also he is interested in social psychology, development of the third world and its issues.
Dr. Quist-Adade has published a chapter in a book. "Africa, the Kremlin, and Press" which was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Mahmah, NJ, USA. Also, he published articles such as Canada Over-educated Black Underclass which was published on Black Today (Online Journal, USA). In the summer, Dr. Quist-Adade signed a contract with the University Press of America to publish his book, which entitled "Africa in the Shadows of the Kremlin and the Press: Africa’s Media Image During and After the Cold War."
Besides teaching, Dr. Quist-Adade publishes and edits a newsmagazine called "Sankofa News" a community-oriented newsmagazine. This newsmagazine is published with the assistance of his mass communication studies students at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. He is also the Windsor correspondent of Gemini News Service and occasionally he strings for various newsmagazine in London, England. In addition, he produces and hosts the Safari Pan-Afrikana show- a show on news, music, commentaries on issues concerning continental Africa and African Diaspora- on the local CJAM, the University of Windsor and Community radio station on Saturday moorings from 10-11.
Dr. Quist-Adade is also the producer of The Ones They Left Behind: "The Life and Plight of African Russians," a 40-minutes video documentary on the offspring of Black student fathers and Russian mothers, who for various reasons were left behind in the former Soviet Union by their departing fathers.
