Obadele Kambon was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of one, his family relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina. Upon completing high school, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia on a full academic scholarship where he majored in African American Studies. Upon graduating magna cum laude from Morehouse, he went on to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At, UW-Madison, he majored in African Languages and Literature on a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. He also was teaching assistant for Introductory Yoruba, Intermediate Yoruba and Introduction to African Literature courses through the Department of African Languages and Literature. While at UW-Madison, Obadele focused on linguistics and within three years completed two Masters Degrees; one in African Languages and Literature and one in Linguistics.
Upon completing graduate school, Obadele taught at various tertiary institutions throughout the Chicago area including, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State University and Malcolm X College where he taught African Communications, Twi and Yoruba. Concurrently, Obadele also taught at various educational institutions throughout the Chicagoland area, from pre-school to high school including Dusable Leadership Academy, Betty Shabazz International Charter School, Winnie Mandela Intergenerational Alternative High School, Charles Hamilton Houston Alternative High School, New Concept Pre-School, Barbara A. Sizemore Academy Middle School, the BSICS Community Shule and Camp Cul-Tech. Subjects taught included Twi, Yoruba, capoeira, introductory Kiswahili, Wolof and outdoor leadership survival skills. After three years in the Chicago area, Obadele moved to Ghana to pursue his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Ghana at Legon.
Obadele Kambon's CV: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/CV.pdf
