H. Ike Okafor-Newsum (Horace Newsum), Columbus, Ohio, is an established visual artist, primarily a sculptor and painter, and an associate professor and chairperson in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Class, Language, and Education: Class Struggle and Sociolinguistics in an African Situation and coauthor of two books: The Use of English (with Adebisi Afolayan) and United States Foreign Policy towards Southern Africa: Andrew Young and Beyond (with Olayiwola Abegunrin).
