Milton Allimadi is a Ugandan American author, journalist, professor, and a co-founder of Black Star News.
He is known for his critique of racist writing by white authors about Africa and Africans, in his 2003 book The Hearts of Darkness and his 2021 Manufacturing Hate.
Early life and education Allimadi was born in Uganda.Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies. (2017). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. p181
He graduated from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia and has a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from Syracuse University.
Career Journalism Allimadi's first journalism job was as an intern at The Journal of Commerce before working at the Wall Street Journal. He later worked freelance for the New York Times, where his access to the paper's archives formed the basis for his later piece "Inventing Africa", which described a pattern of white reporters and editors fabricating stories about Africa in previous decades.Mwakikagile, G. (2007). Relations between Africans and African Americans : misconceptions, myths and realities. Tanzania: New Africa Press. p96Caplan, G. L. (2008). The Betrayal of Africa. United States: Groundwood Books. p132
In 1997, he became the founding editor of New York-based investigative newspaper Black Star News.Kwarteng, F. (2020). The America That I Didn’t Know Existed: Immigrant Experience in American Education. United States: Xlibris US.
He criticized Ugandan peacekeepers seconded to the United Nations for acting as proxy police force for the United States.Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011. (2011). United Kingdom: Seven Stories Press.
Allimadi wrote about the relief of Black Americans after Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Activism In 2014, Allimadi created a petition to the United States State Department to revoke the visa of Ugandan politician Sam Kutesa.
Academia Allimadi has worked as professor of African studies and an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.Kwarteng, F. (2021). The American Medical Association on the Case for Teaching Racism: Afrocentric Literary Pedagogy in Nursing Education and Clinical Practice. United States: Xlibris US. As of 2022, he worked at the John Jay College and as an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia.
Literature His book The Hearts of Darkness critiques the racist stereotypes that white writers perpetuate about Africa and Africans, specifically descriptions of barbarism, physical, moral and intellectual inferiority, denial of the positive contributions that Black people have made to culture, arts, science, and descriptions of Africa as inhospitable and uncivilized.Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa. (2018). United States: Lexington Books. pages 191-192
Selected publications Targeted Rapes to Spread HIV Started in Uganda, 2009, The New York Times The Hearts of Darkness - How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa, 2002, Black Star Books Manufacturing Hate - How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media, 2021, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company,
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