Scholar / Priest Affiliate
Dr. Salim Faraji
Dr. Salim Faraji is an Africana Studies scholar, Nubian history specialist, African Traditional Priest, and affiliate research voice supporting Ancestral Egbe’s work on West African pyramids, Kush, Nubia, Kemet, Hansberry, and sacred architecture.
Profile
Dr. Salim Faraji is a professor and former chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is also the founding executive director of the Master of Arts in International Studies Africa Program at Concordia University Irvine in Ghana, West Africa.
His scholarship centers early Christian history, Africana and Africanist historiography, Coptic studies, and the Kerma, Napatan, Meroitic, and Medieval periods of Nubian history. He is a member of the International Society for Nubian Studies and a founding member of the William Leo Hansberry Society.
Faraji is the author of The Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh and a contributor to Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna Child, the Encyclopedia of African Religion, the Oxford Dictionary of African Biography, and Origins and Afterlives of Kush.
His work is especially important to Ancestral Egbe because he carries both scholarship and priestly literacy. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a practicing African Traditional Priest initiated in Akan traditions of Ghana, West Africa, and ancient Egyptian religious practice.
He has worked extensively on the African continent, including Ghana, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Namibia, as a scholar and activist-humanitarian. His work helps frame the pyramid article through Africana scholarship, Nubian studies, Hansberry’s legacy, and African sacred architecture.
Why This Affiliate Matters
Dr. Faraji’s work gives the pyramid article a stronger scholarly spine because it connects West African earthen pyramids, Nubian tumuli, Kushite civilization, Hansberry’s legacy, and African-centered sacred architecture into one research frame. That makes his scholarship especially useful for readers studying how Ancestral Egbe links Yoruba, Kemet, Nubia, the Sahel, and ancestral monumentality.