Dr. Gosnell Lenox Yorke holds a PhD in Religious and Biblical Studies from McGill University in Canada (1987) where he also studied law for two years at the McGill University Law School (1986-1988). He also holds a BA (University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad – 1976), an MA (Andrews University, USA – 1977) and STM (a Master’s degree – McGill University – 1979). He later earned a Post-Doctoral Certificate in Linguistics from the University of South Africa (1999). He was born in the Federation of St. Christopher-Nevis (or St. Kitts-Nevis) in the English-speaking Caribbean and he has lectured at various Universities in Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Fluent in English (his mother-tongue), French, Portuguese and Spanish – plus having a basic speaking knowledge of Kiswahili and a reading knowledge of German. He currently serves as Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Mediation of African Conflicts Programme in the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at The Copperbelt University and as a Translation Consultant who was trained by the UK-based United Bible Societies. Currently, he consults for various Bible Translation Agencies in Zambia, Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau and elsewhere in Africa. In addition, he is a Former Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for African Renaissance Studies at the University of South Africa; and Former Honorary Consul (Diplomat) for his Caribbean State to the Republic of South Africa (2003-2013).  Dr. Yorke has published in areas such as how Africa and its Diaspora can more meaningfully interact with, benefit from, and help drive the development agenda of, each other. As a Pan-Africanist, he is a Contributor to the forthcoming UNESCO-sponsored Volume IX General History of Africa Project.