Rose Sackeyfio has taught in the Department of English at Winston-Salem State University since 1993 after completing a Ph. D. at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria where she taught for 10 years. Her area of specialization, and scholarly activities is inter-disciplinary and includes the literature of African and African-American women, Women’s Studies, Cultural and Diaspora Studies and recently, South Asian Women’s Writing. Her research interests evolved from over 40 years of travel and research in West Africa. Her publications and scholarly pursuits explore various aspects of the lives of African women in the global arena. Her many publications include book chapters and peer reviewed articles in the Journal of the African Literature Association and African Literature Today. She was a Co-Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Initiative: Integrating India into the Liberal Arts Curriculum at WSSU. In 2011 she was awarded the WSSU Research Initiation Proposal Grant and produced a documentary in Accra, Ghana called Building Bridges: the Untold African Story. The film examines issues of memory, identity and belonging in the 21st century.