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[UNESCO General History of Africa] UNESCO General History of Africa Volume I Methodology and African Prehistory (Editor J. Ki-Zerbo) Volume II Ancient Civilizations of Africa (Editor G. Mokhtar) Volume III Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century (Editor M. El Fasi) (Assistant Editor I. Hrbek) Volume IV Africa...
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[GENERAL HISTORY OF AFRICA \cdot X | Africa and its Diasporas EDITOR VANICLÉIA SILVA SANTOS] GENERAL HISTORY OF AFRICA \cdot X Africa and its Diasporas EDITOR VANICLÉIA SILVA SANTOS Published in 2025 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, Fra...
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Africa and its Diasporas EDITOR VANICLÉIA SILVA SANTOS
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[(0) | Coordination at UNESCO] Coordination at UNESCO Coordination and management: Mouhamadou Lamine Diagne, General History of Africa Programme UNESCO coordination team members: Ali Moussa Iye (retd.), Tabue Nguma, Mohamed Ziadah (decd.), Nyasha Kwedza, Dioulli Kane, Jihane Laaziz, Maissa Gourar, Marlova Jovchelovit...
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[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS UNESCO acknowledges with gratitude the generous contributions received for the production of this publication from the following public and private partners (in alphabetical order): Government of Angola, Government of Brazil, Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais, Escola Superior Do...
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[IN MEMORIAM] IN MEMORIAM We would like to express our gratitude to the experts below for their contributions to the new General History of Africa, Volumes IX-XI: Professor Ambassador (retired) Olabiyi Joseph Babalola Yai, Benin, member of the International Scientific Committee for the drafting of the new volumes of...
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[CONTENTS] CONTENTS List of Figures ..... XV List of Tables and Graphics ..... XIX Foreword by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO ..... XXI General introduction: Reconceptualizing the History of Africa and its Diasporas (Augustin F. C. HOLL, the Chair of the Scientific Committee) ..... XXV Introduction: Histo...
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[CONTENTS] 36 Back to Africa: The Return of Slaves Freed in Brazil (Mônica LIMA E SOUZA) ..... 815 Section III: Life Stories and Freedom Narratives of Global Africa (Coordinator, Paul E. LOVEJOY) Introduction: Life Stories and Freedom Narratives of Global Africa (Paul E. LOVEJOY) ..... 829 I Children in the Indian Oc...
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[LIST OF FIGURES] LIST OF FIGURES Section I Chapter 8 Figure 1 Liu Guangdao's painting Yuan Shizu Hunting (1280 CE) ..... 145 Figure 2 Black Pottery figure in Madame Pei's Tomb (850 CE) found in 1954 in Xi-an ..... 146 Figure 3 Young African students in China photographed with the author (Dr Imen Belhadj from Tunisia...
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[LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHICS] LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHICS Section I Chapter 11 Table 1 Share of export commodities produced by Africans in the Americas, 1501-1850 ..... 192 Section II Chapter 2 Table 1 Sidi Thanedars and rulers of Janjira 1508-1948 ..... 316 Chapter 9 Table 1 Scale of intensity of New World Africanis...
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[FOREWORD] FOREWORD by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO In the first volume of the General History of Africa (GHA), published in 1981, historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Burkina Faso wrote: "Unless one chooses to live in a state of unconsciousness and alienation, one cannot live without memory, or with a memory ...
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[GENERAL INTRODUCTION | Introduction] Introduction The UNESCO General History of Africa (GHA) project consists of a three-stage process. The first stage, 'the General History of Africa' stricto-sensu, was launched in the early 1960s, the second, 'the Pedagogical Use of the General History of Africa', in 2009, and the...
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[The launch of the General History of Africa] The launch of the General History of Africa The middle of the twentieth century was the crest of a wave of independence of African countries. The legacy of World War II, which pitted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Warsaw Pact military alliances against ...
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[The General History of Africa as an alternative] The General History of Africa as an alternative The GHA was crafted as an alternative to the Eurocentric views of world history. The search for an alternative to the situation of alienation, domination and dependency has been part of the activities of some individuals...
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[GHA volumes I to VIII] GHA volumes I to VIII UNESCO's GHA includes the following eight volumes: Volume I - Methodology and African Prehistory, edited by J. Ki-Zerbo (1981), has 28 chapters and three themes: methodology; archaeology and its techniques; and environmental change and regional sequences. Volume II - Anc...
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[The pedagogical use of the General History of Africa] The pedagogical use of the General History of Africa The Pedagogical Use of the General History of Africa project is but the second phase of the GHA long-term objectives. It is geared to shift the momentum back into the hands of Africans and people of African des...
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[The pedagogical use of the General History of Africa | The post-colonial imperative and new epistemology] The post-colonial imperative and new epistemology Some 60 years after the wave of independence of African countries, it was possible to pause and think. The Bretton Woods institutions - the International Monetar...
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[Past Chinese presence in Africa] Past Chinese presence in Africa It is not known precisely when Chinese goods reached Africa for the first time. Archaeological research provides a number of clues. An Austrian expedition excavating in Thebes, at Deir el-Madina, found the remains of silk in the hair of a 30-50 year-ol...
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[Past African presence in China] Past African presence in China Beyond the presence of surprising animals, such as zebras and giraffes (Chau Ju-Kua, 1911; Ferrand, 1919, 1922; Filesi, 1970; Wheatley, 1961; Talib and Samir, 1988), a number of Africans, through different indirect channels, ended up living in China as e...
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[An exciting new conjuncture] An exciting new conjuncture A conjuncture is the convergence of independent factors that generates a new and unpredictable situation that lasts. The new and exciting conjuncture referred to here is made of four distinct developments: (1) a new institutional framework; (2) the improvement...
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[An exciting new conjuncture | A new institutional framework] A new institutional framework The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century witnessed important changes in Africa's political map. After long wars of national liberation, the former Portuguese colonies became sovereign States in th...
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[Africa's economic outlook] Africa's economic outlook The economic outlook of the entire continent has shifted in the right direction during the last two decades, starting from the 2010s. There are significant variations between regions and countries, but on average, the situation has improved. Globally, major Europe...
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[The expansion and acceleration of economic cooperation between Africa, Asia and South America] The expansion and acceleration of economic cooperation between Africa, Asia and South America The multilateral cooperation between African countries and Asian and South American partners is on the increase. Most Asian econ...
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[The expansion and acceleration of economic cooperation between Africa, Asia and South America | The development of a multipolar world] The development of a multipolar world The collapse of the Soviet empire, symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, took all political commentators by surprise. St...
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[The new General History of Africa: an exponential growth] The new General History of Africa: an exponential growth The Volume IX of the General History of Africa project is the third phase, launched in 2013, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The impetus came from Brazil. The Brazilian parliament passed a law on the mandator...
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[An epistemic shift: Global Africa] An epistemic shift: Global Africa This project implies writing a serene history of Africans and people of African descent on a global scale. That is what is subsumed under the concept of 'Global Africa'; in other words, taking into account the many dimensions of Africanness worldwi...
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[An epistemic shift: Global Africa | The decolonization of concepts] The decolonization of concepts The decolonization of the concepts, paradigms and categorizations used in social and human sciences, particularly in history, is regarded as an epistemological necessity throughout the scientific and intellectual commu...
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[The General History of Africa Revisited] The General History of Africa Revisited Volume IX, The General History of Africa Revisited, essentially aims to update the GHA. After four decades of intensive archaeological, historical and anthropological research, most of the content of the first three GHA volumes is parti...
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[Africa and Its Diasporas] Africa and Its Diasporas Volume X, Africa and Its Diasporas, includes three sections. Section 1, coordinated by Carole Boyce-Davies and entitled 'Redefining Global Africanity and Blackness' includes 16 contributions, organized into two parts: (1) 'Race, Location, Diaspora and Global Blackn...
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[Global Africa Today] Global Africa Today The end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century witnessed the complete liberation of Africa from direct colonialism. The newly launched African Union created a sixth region for 'Africans from the diaspora'. All these developments open new opportunities and ...
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[Global Africa Today] Section 3, 'Africa at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium: Challenges and Dynamics', coordinated by Faranirina V. Rajaonah, comprises 22 contributions organized into four rubrics. The first rubric focuses on demography and urbanization. It explores the implications of African population growth in term...
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[Conclusion] Conclusion The project that has resulted in these three volumes was extraordinarily ambitious, original and inspiring. It aimed at setting a new way of writing history, taking into account current debates in social and human sciences, with epistemological ruptures and sustained reconceptualization. Compe...
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[Conclusion] Conclusion This section explores the formation of Global Africa and its consolidation throughout the world by means of its diasporas. The main features of this section are its interdisciplinary approach, the scope of the collaborators involved, and the great diversity of sources used. Our biggest challen...
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[Conclusion] Conclusion Every one of the different migrations of African and Afrodescendent populations that came to Costa Rica specifically, and to Central America generally, produced distinct symbolic codes at the cultural, social and political level. These codes were a product of their particular past, the areas t...
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[Conclusion] Conclusion The enslaved African children of diverse ethnicities forged relationships with their peers on their march to the coast, as well as on board the slavetrading dhows. These relationships were strengthened upon liberation by other liberated African crewmen, who certainly served as positive role mo...
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[Conclusion] After independence from the Spanish metropolitan power, and in the process of shaping the Central American national states, racism took on a new role under the influence of eugenics. Ideas of separate development emerged and politicians attempted to confine Afrodescendants to the Caribbean coastal lowland...
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[Conclusion | References] References Beaujard, P. 2007. East Africa, the Comoros Islands and Madagascar before the sixteenth century: On a neglected part of the world system. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Routledge (print) / Taylor \& Francis Online (online), Vol 42, pp. 15-35. Deng, G. 2005. Chinese Mar...
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[Conclusion | References] References Abaka, E. 2012. House of Slaves and 'Door of No Return'. Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles \mathcalE Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press. Almeida, C. J. 2009. Uma infelicidade feliz. A imagem de África e dos Africanos na Literatura Missionári...
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[Conclusion | References] Da Cunha, M. C. 2013. Negros, estrangeiros. Os escravos libertos e sua volta à África. São Paulo, Brazil, Companhia das Letras. Dalzel, A. 1793. The History of Dabomey, an Inland Kingdom of Africa. London, Archibald Dalzel. Da Silva Guizelin, G. 2015. A última embaixada de um monarca african...
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[Conclusion | References] Ipsen, P. 2015. Daughters of the Trade. Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast. Philadelphia, Penn., University of Pennsylvania Press. J. S. G. (last Commandant of Commenda under the Royal African Company). 1753. The Detector Detected: or, State of Affairs on the Gold Coa...
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[Conclusion | References] Matory, J. L. 2005. Black Atlantic Religion. Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. McCaskie, T. C. 2007. Denkyira in the Making of Asante, c. 1660-1720. The Journal of African History, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 1-25. ...
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[Conclusion | References] Traver, B. 2016. 'The Benefits of Their Liberty': Race and the Eurafricans of Gorée in Eighteenth-Century French Guiana. French Colonial History, Vol. 16, pp. 1-26. Valsecchi, P. 2011. Power and State Formation in West Africa. Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. A. Cameron...
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[INTRODUCTION] INTRODUCTION History of Africa and its Diasporas Vanicléia Silva Santos INTRODUCTION The Epistemological Basis for Claiming Black Identities<br>Carole Boyce Davies INTRODUCTION Mapping the African Diasporas Vanicléia Silva Santos
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[INTRODUCTION | Introduction] Introduction In 2003, the Brazilian Government responded positively to the country's educational institutions' clamour for teaching material on the history of Africa by collaborating with UNESCO. It financed the translation into, and publication in, Brazilian Portuguese of the eight volu...
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[INTRODUCTION | Introduction] So-called 'ethnicities' attributed to Africans in the diasporas outside Africa constitute the common thread of this section. The African identity vocabulary that emerged in societies of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, South Asia, the Middle East and China was originally constructed by sl...
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[INTRODUCTION | Introduction] Pacific. The idea here is to counter the tendency to see the African diaspora exclusively as an Atlantic phenomenon, a tendency even marked by a Northern Atlantic bias (Gilroy, 1993). I wish to emphasize that the Global African diaspora perspective considers voluntary and involuntary mig...
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[The concept of diaspora and its uses as intellectual capital in Black communities] The concept of diaspora and its uses as intellectual capital in Black communities At different points in history, from very early on, millions of Africans were part of the African diasporas. They were moved across the oceans to places...
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[Defining Global Africa beyond the Black Atlantic] Defining Global Africa beyond the Black Atlantic In recent decades, scholars have been defining and redefining African diaspora studies in order to advance conceptual, geographic, temporal, methodological and thematic ideas (Du Bois, 1915; Shepperson, 1965; Asante, 1...
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[Organization of Volume X] Organization of Volume X Volume X of the General History of Africa contains 68 chapters organized into three sections. The first section, Redefining Global Africanity and blackness, is coordinated by Carole Boyce Davies. It is the result of an epistemological forum that addressed the differ...
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[References] References Alpers, E. A. 2001. Defining the African Diaspora. Paper presented to the Center for Comparative Social Analysis Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles, 25 October 2001. Asante, M. K. 1987. The Afrocentric Idea. Philadelphia, Pa., Temple University Press. Austen, R. 1979. The trans-S...
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