Edudzi David Sallah

Edudzi David Sallah completed his Ph.D. in English at Texas A&M University (2025), with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Digital Humanities. His book project, Providence and the Preacher: Black American Missions to West Africa and the Paradox of Transnational Liberation, examines the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church’s expansion to West Africa and its implications for Black diasporic identity and transnationalism. His article “‘The Debt We Owe to Africa’: Florence Randolph’s Letters and Sermons in Edward Blyden’s Wake and the AMEZ Church Connection” is forthcoming in the Journal of Africana Religions (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2025). His research has been supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and he received the Association of Former Students’ Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching at Texas A&M University. He holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from Texas A&M University and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.