High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, President of Comparative and International Education Societyįull of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront.and she inches closer and closer to her death. In addition to his prominence as a scholar, Professor Waghid has personal and enviable qualities as reflected in his collegiality, trustworthiness, responsiveness, reliability, and unfailing compassion. He is one of the foremost intellectuals hailing from South Africa with a global stature. As a public intellectual, he emulates a dialectical relationship between theory and social realities with a consistent engagement for equality and quality educational opportunity, and social progress. He is a creative scholar with significant and original contributions to knowledge and transformative curriculum and pedagogy. He has developed critical insights articulating the importance and necessity of epistemic equality with particular reference to indigenous knowledge system, especially uBuntu. Professor Waghid is an exceptionally prolific writer with consistent academic excellence on topics of critical importance to education and other social institutions, and the struggle for justice and social transformation. He is a global thinker who has made significant contributions to scholarship in South Africa, the broader African world in the continent and the Diaspora, and the international community. Therefore, a few words cannot appropriately encompass my account of the magnitude of his academic profile coupled with his personal qualities and engagement. My familiarity with Professor Yusef Waghid’s scholarship and our collaboration span more than two decades.

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