Tukufu Zuberi
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Tukufu Zuberi is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic,
educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race
Relations, and Professor of the Sociology Department at the University
of Pennsylvania. Tukufu has appeared in several documentaries on Africa
and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchild
(2002), and 500 Years Later (2005). He has also produced his own
documentary film, African Independence that has won a number of
accolades at Film Festivals in America. He is also one of the hosts of
the PBS program History Detectives. Tukufu has curated two museum
exhibits, one at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia (Tides
of Freedom; African Presence on the Delaware) and Black Bodies in
Propaganda; The Art of the War Poster at the Penn Museum.