Basilio Rodríguez Cañada

In 2020, he received the European Award for Business Quality, awarded by the European Association for Economy and Competitiveness, in recognition of his career.

In 2018 Rodríguez Cañada received the "Gold Star" award from the Institute for Professional Excellence (IEP), in recognition of his work and commitment to excellence.

From 2012 to 2015 he was president of the Spanish Association of Africanists, Spanish Section of the European Council for African Studies. He was a founder and is the current president of the PEN Club of Spain. He is also the president of Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group, founded in 1997.

From 2005 to December 2007, he hosted the weekly multicast television program "Tiempo de tertulia".

From 2001 to 2006 Rodríguez Cañada was a professor of Management and Communication at the Mississippi University Institution of Madrid, operated by the University of Southern Mississippi. He was a visiting professor at many different universities, and a regular lecturer at numerous national and international institutions.

From 1989 to 2003 Rodríguez Cañada was deputy director of the "Nuestra Señora de África" school, affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also founder and president of the "Association for the Joint Activities of the University Affiliated Schools of Madrid".

Basilio Rodríguez Cañada (born in Navalvillar de Pela, Badajoz province in 1971) is a Spanish writer, editor, poet, professor, columnist, Africanist and cultural manager.

Basilio Rodríguez Cañada was born in 1961, in the municipality of Navalvillar de Pela, in the province of Badajoz, which belongs to the autonomous community of Extremadura. He holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid.