Linda Heywood

Linda Marinda Heywood (an haife ta a Tunapuna, Trinidad da Tobago a shekarar 1945) ƙwararriyar masaniyar tarihi ce 'yar asalin ƙasar Caribbean-Amurka kuma farfesa ce a fannin nazarin Afirka da tarihi a Jami'ar Boston .  Kafin ta zo Jami'ar Boston a shekarar 2003, Heywood ta koyar a Jami'ar Howard (1984-2003).

Heywood ƙwararriya ce a tarihin Afirka, tana da sha'awar Angola. Rubutunta na ƙarshe, wanda aka buga a matsayin Contested Power a Angola, ya yi magana game da sauyin da masarautun Tsakiyar Tsauni (Viye, Mbailundu, Wambo da sauransu) suka yi daga 'yancin kai zuwa mulkin mallaka, kuma ya haɗa da gwagwarmayar 'yanci da yaƙin basasar Angola daga shekarun 1840 zuwa 1990. A lokacin da take Howard, Heywood tana koyarwa akai-akai a cikin ajin da ake buƙata na Baƙar fata 'Yan Asalin Afirka kuma ta shiga cikin bincike kan 'Yan Asalin Afirka, wanda ya haifar da buga littafinta da aka gyara na 'Yan Asalin Afirka ta Tsakiya da Canjin Al'adu, da kuma littafin 'Yan Asalin Afirka, Atlantic Creoles da Foundation of the Americas. Sha'awar da ta daɗe tana yi wa rayuwar Sarauniya Njinga ta Angola, ta haifar da buga littafin Njinga ta Angola a shekarar 2017.

Heywood tana da digirin BA daga Kwalejin Brooklyn da kuma digirin PhD daga Jami'ar Columbia .  A shekarar 2008, ta raba kyautar Herskovits saboda littafinta (wanda aka rubuta tare da mijinta John Thornton ) 'Yan Afirka ta Tsakiya, 'Yan Kudancin Atlantic, da kuma Gidauniyar Amurka, 1585-1660 . An zaɓe ta zuwa Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a 2020. 

 Littattafai da aka zaɓa 

 An fafata a mulki a Angola, daga shekarun 1840 zuwa yanzu . Jami'ar Rochester Press, Rochester, 2000. 
 'Yan Afirka ta Tsakiya da Sauye-sauyen Al'adu a Ƙasar Waje ta Amurka . Cambridge University Press, 2001. ( edita kuma mai ba da gudummawa) 
 Afirka ta Tsakiya, 'Yan Asalin Atlantic, da Gidauniyar Amurka 1585-1660 . Cambridge University Press, 2007. (tare da John Thornton) 
 Njinga na Angola: Jaruma Sarauniyar Afirka . Jami'ar Harvard Press, 2017.     ISBN 978-0674971820

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1945