Dr. Felix Kumah-Abiwu is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Africana Studies (formerly Pan-African Studies) at Kent State University. He is also the Founding Director of the Center for African Studies at Kent State. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations, Comparative/African Politics and Public Policy) from West Virginia University. He also studied at Ohio University and the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana. Before he joined Kent State, Dr. Kumah-Abiwu taught various courses in Africana Studies at Eastern Illinois University. His research focuses on the politics of development, African security issues, elections and democratization in Africa, foreign policy analysis, foreign aid, social movements (African diaspora), African American males/public education as well as global narcotics policy issues. Dr. Kumah-Abiwu has presented his research papers at national (USA) and international conferences. In 2015 and 2017, he presented his research papers at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He also participated and presented papers at international conferences in Hamilton, Bermuda (2016), Dublin, Ireland (2018), Vienna, Austria (2019), Mauritius (2019) and Dunedin, New Zealand (2019). He is the author of The Dynamics of U.S. Narcotics Policy Change: Implications for the Global Narcotics Regime (2012). In addition to his several published book chapters, he has also contributed a chapter on the security challenges of drug trafficking in West Africa to a volume published by the UN University for Peace (UPEACE). Dr. Kumah-Abiwu’s scholarly articles have also appeared in the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (The Round Table), Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Journal of Pan African Studies, West Africa Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Urban Education, Journal of Men’s Studies and Journal of Economics/Sustainable Development.