Leadership & Management Division

Afuh Innocent Awasom

Afuh Innocent Awasom received his Master of Information Science degree in 1995 from the Africa Regional Center for Information Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also has a BS and MS in Zoology from the same school.

He has been a science librarian at the University of Idaban, the University of Ngaundere, Cameroon (where he also was deputy University Librarian and Head of the Research Library), University of Minnesota, and now at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He has also taught information literacy at and other library courses at each of these schools.

Mr. Awasom was an SLA Global 2000 Fellow, received the SLA’s David Bender International Development Scholarship in 2002 and the Diversity Leadership Award in 2004, and has received grants from IFLA and the Mortensen Center for International Library Leadership. From 2000 to 2004, he was a director of the Sub-Saharan Chapter of SLA and was founding President of the Association of Information and Documentation Professional, a local regional library association in Cameroon.

He was the subject of an article in American Libraries in December 2004, focusing on his flight from Cameroon in late 2002 after exposing extensive financial corruption within the university which resulted in threats against his life.

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