Akinyele Umoja (an haife shi a 1954) malami ne ɗan ƙasar Amurka kuma marubuci ne wanda ya ƙware a karatun Afirka Ba'amurke.ne A matsayinsa na mai fafutuka, memba ne na kafa sabuwar Kungiyar Jama'ar Afrikan da Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. A cikin Afrilu 2013, Jami'ar New York ne Press ta buga littafin Umoja Za Mu Harba Baya: Tsayayyar Makamai a cikin 'Yancin Mississippi . A halin yanzu, shi Farfesa ne kuma Shugaban Sashen Ne Nazarin Baƙin Baƙi a Jami'ar Jihar Georgia (GSU). Yea An haifi Akinyele Omowale Umoja a Los Angeles, California, a 1954, kuma ya shafe yawancin ƙuruciyarsa a Compton, California . Ya kammala karatunsa na sakandare a shekarar ta 1972. Umoja ya sami BA a karatun Afro-Amurka daga Jami'ar Jihar California, Los Angeles, a watan Yuni 1986. Ya sami MA a watan Agusta 1990 a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Liberal a Jami'ar Emory a Atlanta, Georgia . Yayin Ph.D. Sannan dan takara ne a Emory karkashin Robin Kelley, taken karatunsa shine "Eye for Eye: Resistance Armed in the Mississippi Freedom Movement."