Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin
Mrs. E's Collectables News Letter
Nov 1, 2008
Issue XIX
Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora (Paperback)
by Toyin Falola (Author), Niyi Afolabi (Author), Aderonke Adesola Adesanya (Author)
Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture) (Hardcover) by Deborah Gray White (Editor) Deborah Gray White is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University.
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African Diaspora
Over a period of almost four centuries, four milion Africans were transported to North America and the Caribbean Islands in the Atlantic slave trade. Captured from their homeland and seperated from their tribes and families they were enslaved in a new world, where all familiar customs were absent. The African diaspora is the story of how Africans, though scattered disperesed, managed to retain their traditions and reform their identities in a new world. Elements of African culture such as religion, language, and folklore endured and were their links to their past lives. In the process of americanization, Africans formed another culture known as Afro-Americans or Creoles. .. ....(Read More)
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Hardcover)
by Kristin Mann (Author)
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