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Sylviane Diouf
"Author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims
Enslaved in the Americas (New York University Press, 1998) the first
book to retrace the 500 year-old story of West African Muslim
communities in the New World was named a 1999 Outstanding Academic
Book. Her new book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave
Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
deals with the experience of Africans deported to America. It is a
detailed account of the lives of the young people from Benin and Nigeria
who were on the last documented slave ship to the U.S. They arrived in
Mobile, Alabama in July 1860. She received a doctorate from the
University of Paris, and had careers in journalism, diplomacy, and
academia. She taught at the University of Libreville and New York
University. She has appeared on television in ABC Like It Is; the
PBS documentary This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual
Journeys; and the PBS series History Detectives. She
has lived in France, Senegal, Gabon, and Italy, and has been residing in
New York for several years. She is a curator at the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture."
(http://www.sylvianediouf.com)
Bibliography:
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
Servants of Allah
Bintou's Braids
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07 March 2007
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