Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia
By: edited by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot.
Contributors: Jayasuriya, Shihan de S.; Angenot, Jean-Pierre.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789004162914
Subjects: Africans -- Asia -- History; African diaspora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying Africans in Asia : what's in a name / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya; title: The Afro-Asian diaspora : myth or reality / Gwyn Campbell; title: The African slave trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands / Robert O. Collins; title: The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East Afria during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini; title: Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst; title: Nineteen century European : references to the African diaspora / Clifford Pereira; title: Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya; title: The African native in diaspora / Jeanette Pinto; title: Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.