David Conrad

David holds a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; is emeritus professor of history, State University of New York at Oswego; and is a recipient of major grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. David’s travels to Africa began with Peace Corps service in Nigeria. He then continued to Ethiopia where he was the project leader for “Operation Crossroads Africa” with an overland photographic expedition from Morocco to Egypt. David regularly returns to his research villages in Guinea and Mali, and he is also presently ethno-historian of a Yale University research project on the Baga peoples of Guinea. In 2008 he appeared in the “Sahel to the Sahara” episode of Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe (PBS) and in The Discovery Channel’s The Lost Gold of Timbuktu with Josh Bernstein. Among his books are A State of Intrigue, Status and Identity in West Africa, Epic Ancestors of the Sunjata Era, Somono Bala of the Upper Niger, Sunjata: A West African Epic, and the prize-winning Empires of Medieval West Africa.

Upcoming Expeditions

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