Ja A. Jahannes

Ja Arthur Jahannes (August 25, 1942 – July 5, 2015) was a professor at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia and the pastor of the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church in Savannah.

He was a prolific playwright, music composer, essayist, and poet, a frequent theatre director and international lecturer,[1] and a pioneer of Black psychology.

He then earned two master's degrees from Hampton University in Virginia in 1966 and a doctorate in 1972 from the University of Delaware.

[1][3] He joined the Savannah State faculty in 1981 as dean of the School of Humanities there.

[1] His wife, artist Clara Agüero Ortiz, also an educator, worked as a professor of Fine Arts at Savannah State.