Kassahun checole biography sample

Publishing company founded by Kassahun Checole in 1983

Africa World Press (AWP) is a publishing company founded in 1983 by Kassahun Checole in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, with a mission to publish books on the history, culture and politics of Africa and the African diaspora.

Two years later, The Red Sea Press was added as an imprint of AWP, with a primary focus on the Horn of Africa,^[1] and taking on the role of distributor for books on and about Africa and people of African descent in the continent as well as the diaspora.^[2]

Background and output

The president and publisher of Africa World Press and The Red Sea Press is Kassahun Checole, who grew up in Eritrea.^[3] He attended Haile Selassie University, and in 1971 went to further his education at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghampton), where he developed his interest in Pan African movements; after earning an undergraduate degree in