Kunjufu attended Illinois State University at Normal and received a bachelor of science degree in economics in 1974. As a young man, Kunjufu was urged by his father to volunteer his time at a number of different jobs, working without pay in exchange for learning firsthand how businesses and skilled craftsmen went about their work.
Kunjufu holds advanced degrees in business and economics that have enabled him to place the problems of black society in the larger context of national and international economic models.īorn on June 15, 1953, in Chicago, Kunjufu -who adopted a Swahili name in 1973 -credits his parents, Eddie and Mary Brown, with affording him the encouragement, discipline, and stability that would later become the core of his program for the renewal of black society.
He is the founder and president of African American Images, a Chicago-based publishing company that sponsors dozens of workshops intended to help educators and parents develop practical solutions to the problems of child-rearing in what he perceives to be a racist society. All aspects of the African American experience occupy Kunjufu ’s attention, but the main thrust of his work has been directed toward improving the education and socialization of black youths. Jawanza Kunjufu has dedicated his career to addressing the ills afflicting black culture in the United States, working primarily as an educational consultant and author but more recently expanding into video and film production.
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