The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean
Shihan de S Jayasuriya has researched Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole, the lingua franca for almost 350 years in Sri Lanka, and has published in academic journals in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the United States.  She is the author of two books:  Tagus to Taprobane and An Anthology of Indo-Portuguese Verse.Richard Pankhurst, who was the founder and first director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University, is currently professor of Ethiopian Studies at the Institute. He has written extensively on Ethiopian history and is the author inter alia of An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia (1961), Economic History of Ethiopia 1800-1935 (1968), A Social History of Ethiopia (1990), The Ethiopian Borderlands (1997) and The Ethiopians (1999).