Sowande Mustakeem 00 is an associate professor of history and African and African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the highly acclaimed “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage.
Sowande’ Mustakeem ’00, author of “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage,” shares her story of loss, triumph and success, since graduating as Elon’s first African & African-American Studies major.
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Oct. 25, 1997, is a day Sowande’ Mustakeem will never forget. That’s when she and two friends traveled to Philadelphia, joined by roughly 750,000 other Black women, to cry out for social and economic development in America’s Black community. That event – the Million Woman March – would prove to be a pivotal point in Mustakeem’s story.