Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, Edward L. Powe has a Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature (specializing in Hausa) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison,(1984), an MA in linguistics with a minor in Arabic from Indiana University-Bloomington(1971); and a BA with distinction in Spanish with a minor in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico- Albuquerque (1967).
In 1967, Dr. Powe traveled to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship. Amidst his studies he trained with and received a diploma de capoeirista from Mestre Pastinha’s academy, which is only given to those students who distinguished themselves in the art.
In 1972 Dr. Powe opened the first Capoeira Academy in the United States as a community outreach program while Director of Black Education Programs at Eastern Washington State College in Cheney, Washington.
Dr. Powe has also traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Latin America, Indonesia, and Melanesia and has held various administrative and teaching positions at home and abroad, including: President and Founder of the Black Languages, Arts & Culture Foundation of Paterson N.J., Associate Peace Corps Director (Chad, Niger, Upper Volta), Lecturer in the Program of African and Asian Languages (Northwestern University, Evanston), and Lecturer in the Dept. of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano Nigeria. He has proficiency in 7 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili and Indonesian) in addition to his native English and has acquired sufficient knowledge of Malagasy ,Quchuca, Tagalog, Zulu, Kiché and Tamil for research purposes. Since 1992, Dr. Powe has worked almost exclusively as an independent writer and publisher, articulating his research into over 70 self-published titles to date.
For more information about his various publications please view his websites: www.danaikipublications.org. and www.blacfoundation.org
Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, Edward L. Powe has a Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature (specializing in Hausa) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison,(1984), an MA in linguistics with a minor in Arabic from Indiana University-Bloomington(1971); and a BA with distinction in Spanish with a minor in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico- Albuquerque (1967).
In 1967, Dr. Powe traversed to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship. Amidst his studies he trained with and received a diploma de capoeirista from Mestre Pastinha’s academy, which is only given to those students who distinguished themselves in the art.
In 1972 Dr. Powe opened the first Capoeira Academy in the United States as a community outreach program while Director of Black Education Programs at Eastern Washington State College in Cheney, Washington.
Dr. Powe has also traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Latin America, Indonesia, and Melanesia and has held various administrative and teaching positions at home and abroad, including: President and Founder of the Black Languages, Arts & Culture Foundation of Paterson N.J., Associate Peace Corps Director (Chad, Niger, Upper Volta), Lecturer in the Program of African and Asian Languages (Northwestern University, Evanston), and Lecturer in the Dept. of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano Nigeria. He has proficiency in 7 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili and Indonesian) in addition to his native English and has acquired sufficient knowledge of Malagasy ,Quchuca, Tagalog, Zulu, Kiché and Tamil for research purposes. Since 1992, Dr. Powe has worked almost exclusively as an independent writer and publisher, articulating his research into over 70 self-published titles to date.
For more information about his various publications please view his websites: www.danaikipublications.org. and www.blacfoundation.org
