“To Know Is Not Enough”: Diaspora Fathers’ Conduct of Fatherhood, Teaching, and Learning With Their Children in a New World

• In Event: Complexities of Educational Experiences of Africans at Home and in the Diaspora

Abstract

This research draws on a focus group discussion and personal interviews with African Diaspora men residing in the United States with the goal of qualifying involvement in their children’s education and upbringing, and establishing the nature of the paternal influence they have in child rearing in a new culture.

Authors

• Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, Adelphi University

• Berte Van Wyk, Stellenbosch University