H. Ike Okafor-Newsum (Horace Newsum) is an established visual artist, primarily a sculptor and painter, and associate professor and chairperson of the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. He is 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).
