Dr. Yosef ben Jochannan (Dr. Ben) Video Collection

Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan 
BornDecember 31, 1918
DiedMarch 19, 2015 (aged 96)
Bay Park Nursing Home, Bronx, New York

He was also known as Dr. Ben, is an African-American writer and historian. He was considered one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars.

Ben-Jochannan was born the only child of an Afro-Puerto Rican Jewish mother named Julia Matta and an Ethiopian father named Kriston ben-Jochannan, in a Falasha community in Ethiopia.

He was educated in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, and Spain, earning degrees in engineering and anthropology. I

In 1938, Ben-Jochannan earned a BS in Civil Engineering at the university of Puerto Rico, despite the fact that the University of Puerto Rico did not offer this degree, nor was there an Engineering Department until 1942.

In 1939 a Master's degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Havana, Cuba. He received doctoral degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Moorish History from the University of Havana and the University of Barcelona, Spain.

In the years before his death, Ben-Jochannan lived in Harlem, New York City in the Lenox Terrace Co-ops. Ben-Jochannan died on March 19, 2015, at the age of 96. at the Bay Park Nursing Home in the Bronx.
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