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First Name
Nemata
Last Name
Blyden
Country
United States
State
DC District of Columbia
Affiliation
George Washington University
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Keywords
Africa, African Diaspora, Women in Africa, African immigration in the United States
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About Me

I am a historian of Africa and its Diaspora. My forthcoming book, African Americans and Africa: Links in History examines the long standing relationship between African Americans and the continent of Africa and its people. My interests, broadly, are on the connections between Africa and its diaspora. Influence, engagement and identification with the continent on the part of Africans in the Americas and the Caribbean have been central to my work. I have also published and continue to pursue research on African immigrants in the United States.

Recent Publications

“This na true story of our history”: South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory” in Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2015, pp. 355-370.

“Re envisioning the African Diaspora: Historical Memory and Cross-fertilization in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone” in Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone, Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid (eds), Lexington Books, 2013

“Relationships among Blacks in the Diaspora: African and Caribbean Immigrants and American-Born Blacks” in Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands, editors John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, (Lexington Books 2012)

“Back to Africa: Sierra Leone, 1787-1897” in Back to Africa, Vol. II: The Ideology and Practice of the African Returnee Phenomenon from the Caribbean and North America ed. Kwesi Kwaa Prah (CASAS BOOK SERIES NO. 92, The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, 2012

“Early Black Atlantic Identities” in Back to Africa, Vol. II: The Ideology and Practice of the African Returnee Phenomenon from the Caribbean and North America, 2012 ed Kwesi Kwaa Prah (CASAS BOOK SERIES NO. 92, The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, 2012

N. Blyden and F. Akiwumi, “A Perspective of the African Diaspora in the United States” in John W. Frazier, Joe T. Darden, Norah F. Henry (eds), The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Global Academic Publishing, 2009)

Entry: Blyden, Edward Wilmot (1832-1912) in Carole E. Boyce Davies (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 27 Mar. 2009

Entry: Liberia in Carole E. Boyce Davies (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 27 Mar. 2009

 “We have the cause of Africa at Heart”: West Indians and African-Americans in 19th century Freetown” in Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole, New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio, Peter Lang Publishing. 2006

Book review of James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek, Svend Holsoe and Melissa Leach African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth Century Diaries in African Studies Review, Vol. 48, number 1, April 2005

Contributor: Howard Dodson and Sylviane Diouf In motion: the African-American migration experience  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) National Geographic Society, 2005, Washington, D.C

“‘Back to Africa’ The Migration of New World Blacks to Sierra Leone and Liberia”, in Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Volume 18, Number 3 (April 2004), pp. 23-25

Book review, David Eltis (ed) Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives, Stanford University Press, 2002 in American Historical Review, February 2004

Entry: “Non-African Diasporas” in Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century African history / editor, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; deputy editor, Dickson Eyoh. London; New York: Routledge, 2003 pp. 395-3989

“The Search for Anna Erskine: African-American Women in nineteenth century Liberia in, Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, Catherine Higgs, Barbara Moss, Earline Rae Ferguson, Ohio University Press, 2002 pp. 31-43

West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: A Diaspora in reverse, University of Rochester Press, 2000

“Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone” in edited work Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, John W. Pulis (ed.) (Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999), pp.159-182

Spring 2000: Updated Sierra Leone entry for Encyclopedia Britannica

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Sierra Leone, Liberia, United States
Expertise by Geography
Africa, North America
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Migration & Immigration, Public History, Race, Women