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‘’’Itibari M. Zulu’’’

Itibari M. Zulu (born April 24, 1953) is a librarian and founding editor of The Journal of Pan African Studies. He introduced and taught the first California State University course on the African American holiday Kwanzaa in 1988, and coined the phrase ‘information apartheid’ in 1993.

‘’’Education’’’

Zulu has an associate and a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Merritt College and California State University at East Bay, a M.L.S. from San Jose State University in library science, a Th.D. from Amen-Ra Theological Seminary, and he has done post-graduate studies in education at UCLA and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Union Institute & University.

‘’’Career’’’

Zulu is currently editor of The Journal of Pan African Studies. He has served as a librarian at Mesa Community College; the head librarian at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center at UCLA; a consultant for the African American Museum and Library at Oakland; an intermittent librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library; a program coordinator at UCLA Extension in cooperation with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; a lecturer in African American Studies and reference librarian at California State University at Fresno; a teacher and intermittent teacher at the Fresno Unified School District, and as an intern librarian at the Fresno County Public Library.

Black Library Association Combats 'Information Apartheid' in Los Angeles Sentinel (Los Angeles, California) October 27, 1993, vol.59, issue 28, p. C-4. Mallegg, Kristin B., ed. Who’s Who Among African Americans. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.

Zulu, Itibari M. “The Dynamics of Information Apartheid” in Culture Keepers II: Unity Through Diversity (Proceedings of the Second National Conference of African American Librarians, August 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), ed. Stanton F. Biddle. Newark, NJ: Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 1995, pp.39-45.