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Hometown

Nova-Lusitania, Mozambique

Places I've been

Abu Dhabi Dubai Bahrain Barbados Belgium Botswana Canada Cape Verde Islands China England Germany Guyana Holland Holland India India Japan Kenya Kuwait Malawi Mexico Mozambique Oman Pakistan Portugal Seychelles South Africa Spain Surinam Borders Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Thailand

Education

• Cambridge Tutors College, "A" Levels World History, Eng Lit, Politics - 1972 to 1974
• University of Sussex, International Relations - 1974 to 1977

Work

• Califorania State University, Bakersfield, Assoc VP, Acad Prog, Grad and Undergrad Dean - 2008 to 2008
• California State University, Los Angeles, Dean, Division of Extended Education - 2005 to 2008
• Alliant International University, Vice Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences - 2002 to 2005
• Grad School of Int Aff and Dev, Clark Atlanta Univ, Coordinator & Assoc Prof, Afri Studies - 1995 to 2002

More about me

Born in Mozambique. Educated by Jesuits. Refugee worker in Lusaka. Worked to make ends meet as bookbinder, carpenter,constitutional consultant for non-profits, cook, curriculum designer, graphics designer, language tutor, property developer, publisher, radio show host, rockery gardener, systems analyst, translator, and voice-overs.

Short stints include language schools in Germany and Switzerland. Have worked, traveled and lived in Africa, Asia, the Far East, South America, Canada, Mexico, and America.

Linguist and at present writing a monograph on massacres with the provisional title, Why They Killed.

Have written, what some consider to be, a critically acclaimed book, Warriors At Work, How Guinea Was Really Set Free.

A Google Web Search may yield more on me; and Google Scholar Search will give a sample of my written works.

I most recently served as Dean, Division of Extended Education at Cal State LA. Prior to that I was Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Studies, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School of Social and Policy Studies at Alliant International University, Scripps Ranch Campus, San Diego. My responsibilities included coordinating, administering and managing a multi-location campus of the university, which had learning centers in California, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and Thailand. I also brought in $210,000 in summer-time revenue through innovative programs in filmmaking, multimedia boot camps, forensics and criminalistics, and technical writing.

I am now Associate Vice President of Academic Programs and Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, in the Division of Academic Affairs at California State University, Bakersfield. I am a Fulbright Scholar, a calligraphist, and former member of the Executive Committee of the Fulbright Association-San Diego Chapter.

I earned my B.A. from the School of African and Asian Studies at Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton, England, and my D.Phil from the University of Oxford in England. I am a polyglot but essentially at the core, an historian.

I spent nearly eleven years in Asia as a monk before studying sculpting. In 1984 I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. My sculpture works are to be found in collections internationally: The United States, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Switzerland, and Mozambique.

Have won several juried exhibition awards, and sketched and held exhibitions of my work in Maputo during my Fulbright in 1995. One of my pieces “Atlas Rising” was recently accepted as a juried entry at The San Diego Art Institute/Museum of the Living Artist’s Southern California Regional Juried Award Exhibition 1998.

Visit www.myspace.com/dhada for visuals. Enjoy!

Activities

Blind embossing and publishing, Bow-ties, Calligraphy, Educational management, Graphics design, Heraldry, History, Investment and portfolio management, Luso-african cinema, Pens and inks, Pochettes, Publishing, Sculpting, Sufism, Traumas and tribulations of writing non-fiction, War crimes and their investigation.

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