S.O.Y. Keita

Dr. Shomarka Keita
Senior Research Associate, National Human Genome Center, Howard University. Research Associate, Deptartment of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institute

Shomarka Omar Y. Keita is a biological anthropologist and physician who has long been interested in human variation, especially in Africa, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to the past. He has authored or coauthored publications in peer reviewed science and humanities journals including  the American Journal of Human Biology, Science, American Anthropologist, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Nature Genetics, and History in Africa. His research has been in the areas of craniofacial variation, paleopathology, ancient Egyptian skeletal biology, the syntheses of biology, linguistics, and archaeology in order to study African population history, and the history of ideas about "race" and human variation in Africa. Recently Dr. Keita has developed an interest in the issue of building capacity to produce endogenous knowledge in Africa and the diaspora as a need for development. He is currently Senior Research Associate at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, and a medical officer at St Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia. He received the doctorate in medicine from  Howard University, a masters in general anthropology from SUNY-Binghamton, and the master of science and doctorate in biological anthropology from Oxford University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._O._Y._Keita
http://stream.rallytube.me/en/video/aZssWb4MmGM/Shomarka-Omar-Keita-What-Genetics-Can-Tell-Us-EGYPT
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Ancient_Egypt
http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol80/iss2/3/
http://books.google.ca/books?id=xxcdjUGfx40C&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Geography,+selected+Afro-Asiatic+families,and+Y+chromosome+lineage+variation&source=bl&ots=Vpa7jZvQha&sig=nwIiiFVyOCUBk3cCtg5vSszYY0k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JSE6VO2fNMaeyASv1IHYCA&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Geography%2C%20selected%20Afro-Asiatic%20families%2Cand%20Y%20chromosome%20lineage%20variation&f=false

Controversy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_Zm-uWDSE
http://physicswikis.com/physical_anthropology_jobs/7Phoenician7_dismissed_based_off_Ancient/567811/

Of Interest
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/The_battle_to_keep_ancient_Egypt_Black_4524.shtml
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/what-dr-keita-actually-says-about-the-race-of-the-ancient-egyptians/
http://www.city-data.com/forum/history/1684710-nubia-birthed-egypt-3.html