Having lived in different cultural environments, including West Africa, Russia, France and America, a University of Wisconsin research specialist self-published a book recounting his six years of higher education in the USSR and his experience as a black man in the country. Thierno Diallo, a senior corn research specialist at UW’s Department of Agriculture, was among hundreds of African students … Continue reading UW researcher recounts racism, illegal trade, temptations of Russia in self-published book