Dr. Nesbitt was born on Chicago's West Side, has spent more than five decades as an educator, activist, and speaker on Africa, foreign policy, and racism. Prexy's career has also included extensive consulting and training on class, race, multiculturalism and diversity. A teacher and lecturer for many years all over the USA, he additionally has worked as a "red cap," social worker, union organizer, special assistant to Chicago’s Mayor, the late Harold Washington, and a senior program officer with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. Over the course of his career, Prexy has made more than one hundred trips to Africa, including trips taken in secret to apartheid-torn South Africa. A product of the University College of Dar Es Salaam and Antioch College, he was active in the USA, Canada and Europe in the struggle to end apartheid and worked to end colonialism in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia) and Namibia (former Southwest Africa). From 1979-1983, he worked worldwide as the Program Director of the World Council of Churches Program to Combat Racism based out of Geneva, Switzerland. In the late 80's he served as senior consultant to the Mozambique Government organizing in North America to prevent the apartheid-backed rebel movement, RENAMO, from gaining official support from the Reagan administration and its allies. Prexy has lectured and written widely, both in the United States and abroad, publishing one book and articles in some twenty-five international journals. He was interviewed in the 1993 documentary about police brutality in Chicago, "The End of the Nightstick;" appears prominently in the 2014 documentary "Soft Vengeance" on the life of South African High Court Justice, Albie Sachs, and also served as a cowriter on the 1999 BBC/PBS production of The People's Century film series segment, "Skin Deep," a documentary about racism in the United States and South Africa. For thirty-three years, he taught African history courses at Chicago's Columbia College and took people on educational, cultural and political tours to various 'Third World' countries, regions and situations, both abroad and in the United States. One recent trip, through the organization he founded, MAKING THE ROAD, was to Brazil, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, June-August, 2013. One of his most signal lifetime achievements, according to those who know him well, is that he has had the honor of knowing and working for the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel and Mayor Harold Washington, Additionally, he has worked closely with Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, Nelson Mandela, and Graca Machel.