Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - xi, 196 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.

Identifying Africans in Asia : what's in a name? / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The Afro-Asian diaspora : myth or reality? / Gwyn Campbell -- The African slave trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands / Robert O. Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.


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Africans--History.--Asia
African diaspora.


Electronic books.

DS28.A35 / U53 2008eb

950.0496